Godwin, North Carolina.
Typical home $237,470 (+7.5% in a year). Fayetteville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$712 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,473 +7%
- $220,997$237,470 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,545 +37%
- $172,925$237,470 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.
- Godwin$1,246
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Godwin, NC rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Godwin, Sampson County, North Carolina
Godwin is a town of 128 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Godwin is a very small town in Sampson County, North Carolina, home to only a small number of people. Homes here cost somewhat more than the typical household income across Sampson County might suggest, and county incomes sit modest. Winters are cool and mild, with January the coldest month and frost on some nights, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest. Snow is rare and falls only lightly, and rain comes steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Godwin work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Sampson County, some of the largest workplaces are Smithfield Clinton, a pork processing plant, Sampson County Schools and Prestage Farms, a hog farming business. Joblessness across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Little River is a short drive away, and Averasboro Battlefield and Museum, a museum of local history, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Raven Rock State Park is a protected area of woods and river within a longer drive. The Airborne & Special Operations Museum is another museum a longer drive away.
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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 92° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dunn Northwest weather station, 7 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; Godwin 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Godwin’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 Sampson County and the Fayetteville, NC metro.
Godwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Godwin$237,470
- 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.
- Godwin12
Zip codes with a Godwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Godwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.