Fountain, North Carolina.
Typical home $159,301 (+10.0% in a year). Wilson, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$521 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,459 +10%
- $144,842$159,301 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,966 +46%
- $109,335$159,301 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.
- Fountain$836
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Fountain, NC rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fountain, Wilson County, North Carolina
Fountain is a town of 385 people in Wilson County. Unemployment in Wilson County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wilson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fountain is a very small town in Wilson County, in eastern North Carolina, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced modestly, and the county's household incomes sit on the lower side. Winters are cool with only a little snow, summers turn hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Wilson County, some of the largest workplaces are Bridgestone Americas, Wilson County Schools and Merck and Co. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs slipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Most outings mean a longer drive. Buckhorn Reservoir is a place to be out on the water, and the Imagination Station Science Museum offers a rainy-day visit. Fort Neoheroka is an archaeological site for those interested in the area's earlier history.
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What people in Wilson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wilson County had 34,906 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilson County
- Bridgestone AmericasTire manufacturing1,666
- Wilson County SchoolsSchool district1,238FTE
- City of WilsonExecutive and legislative office combinations1,087
- Merck and CoPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing635
- Fresenius Kabi USAPatent medicine preparations manufacturing628
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing585
- Smithfield Packaged MeatsMeats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants560
- Wilson Medical CenterGeneral hospital559FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,487 people in all across the county; Fountain has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fountain’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 Wilson County and the Wilson, NC metro.
Fountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fountain$159,301
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.