Fairmont, North Carolina.
Typical home $93,962 (+3.4% in a year). Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,127 +3%
- $90,835$93,962 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,515 +39%
- $67,447$93,962 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Fairmont$493
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Fairmont, NC rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairmont, Robeson County, North Carolina
Fairmont is a town of 2,191 people in Robeson County. Half its households earn more than $36,641 a year and half less, against $41,978 across Robeson County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 47% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 53% are rented. Unemployment in Robeson County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Fairmont is a small town in Robeson County, North Carolina, where incomes run below the county's and more households live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a typical American town. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than renters would suggest is usual, so renting is common, and a typical home here costs well under what it does in much of the country. A four-year degree is held by a small minority of adults, and winters are mild and brief while summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, or in professional and business services. Across Robeson County, some of the largest workplaces are Mountaire Farms, the Public Schools of Robeson County and S.E. Regl Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the usual trip to work takes a little under an hour, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Lumber River State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits walking and time by the water. A longer drive brings you to South of the Border, an amusement park, and to Little Pee Dee State Park, another protected area. For an evening out, the Carolina Civic Center is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 950households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Robeson County had 37,260 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lumberton Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Robeson County
- Mountaire FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing3,500
- Public Schools of Robeson CountySchool district2,916FTE
- S.e. Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,428FTE
- Sanderson Farms St. Pauls ProcessingPoultry processing1,240
- Campbell Soup Supply CompanySoups canning1,218
- University of North Carolina at PembrokeUniversity or college992
- Robeson Community CollegeTwo-year college590
- Prestage FoodsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing453
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,763 people in all across the county; Fairmont has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairmont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Fairmont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairmont$93,962
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairmont11
Zip codes with a Fairmont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairmont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.