Garland, North Carolina.
Typical home $90,917 (+1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$253 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,156 +1%
- $89,761$90,917 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,319 +17%
- $77,598$90,917 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.
- Garland$477
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Garland, NC rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Garland, Sampson County, North Carolina
Garland is a town of 595 people in Sampson County. Unemployment in Sampson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sampson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garland is a very small town in Sampson County, North Carolina, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight if not by name. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is modest in price. Winters are cool and mostly mild, summers turn hot, and rain is steady through the year, with a little snow now and then.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Sampson County, some of the largest workplaces are Smithfield Clinton, Sampson County Schools and Sampson Regional Medical Center. The usual trip to work is a moderate drive, and the county's job market has been growing slowly.
Things to do. Six Runs Creek is a river a short drive away, a quiet spot for a walk along the water. A longer drive takes you to Singletary Lake State Park, a protected area built around a lake, or to Moores Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site from the Revolutionary War era. Liberty Hall, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Sampson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sampson County had 17,386 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabethtown weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sampson County
- Smithfield ClintonPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants1,289
- Sampson County SchoolsSchool district1,038FTE
- Prestage FarmsHog and pig farming709
- Harnett Health SystemGeneral hospital686FTE
- County of SampsonGeneral services departments, government621
- Sampson Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital408FTE
- Clinton City SchoolsSchool district387FTE
- Sampson Community CollegeTwo-year college356
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,739 people in all across the county; Garland has none 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Sampson County.
Garland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garland$90,917
- 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 Garland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.