Fairview, North Carolina.
Typical home $482,072 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $3,055 . Asheville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,453 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,051 +3%
- $470,021$482,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,186 +29%
- $372,886$482,072 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.
- Fairview$2,530
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Fairview, NC rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairview, Buncombe County, North Carolina
Fairview, in Buncombe County, had 2,771 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Buncombe County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Buncombe County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairview is a small community in Buncombe County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than across the county as a whole. Homes carry a high typical value, and the county's household incomes sit at a middling level for the region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Across Buncombe County, some of the largest workplaces are Buncombe County Schools, Mission Hospital and the Veterans Health Administration. The typical commute is a modest one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Folk Art Center, a museum, and Rainbow Falls, a waterfall, are both a short drive away, as are the Broad River and the Catawba River. For a longer outing, Chimney Rock State Park and Pisgah National Forest are both protected areas, and Hickory Nut Falls is another waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Buncombe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Buncombe County had 134,686 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 61°. About 28 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Swannanoa Sse weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buncombe County
- Buncombe County SchoolsSchool district3,445FTE
- Mission HospitalGeneral hospital3,371FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,409
- County of BuncombeCommunity social service program administration1,665
- Biltmore Workforce ManagementHistorical sites1,388
- MB HaynesConstruction management, commercial and institutional building1,223
- Ingles MarketsGeneral warehousing and storage1,175
- EatonPanelboards, electric power distribution, manufacturing1,081
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 255 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 40,545 people in all across the county; Fairview has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairview’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Buncombe County and the Asheville, NC metro.
Fairview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairview$482,072
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fairview listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Fairview26.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairview13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fairview17
Zip codes with a Fairview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.