Greenville, North Carolina.
Typical home $236,340 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,460 (+1.8%). Greenville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$711 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,937 +1%
- $234,403$236,340 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,411 +31%
- $179,929$236,340 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.
- Greenville$1,240
- 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 Greenville, NC rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Greenville, NC rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Greenville runs $197/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $320 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,657 a month against $1,460 rent: a $1,240 mortgage payment, plus $163 property tax and $253 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Greenville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,657
- Renting$1,460
- Mortgage only$1,240
Property tax · $163/mo 0.83% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Pitt County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $253/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina
Greenville is a city of 87,521 people in Pitt County. Half its households earn more than $49,748 a year and half less, against $58,188 across Pitt County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 33% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 67% are rented. Unemployment in Greenville was 4.8% in August 2026, and Pitt County had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Greenville is a city with a young population, and far more renters than across the county, so many people here are students and others early in their working lives. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Greenville are Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Pitt County Schools and the City of Greenville. Unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, and the commute is short for most people.
Things to do. Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium and Guy Smith Stadium are both in or beside town, for those who like to watch a game close to home. A longer drive away are the Tar River, good for time on the water, and the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife.
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- 40,783households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pitt County had 81,398 jobs in 2025, about as many as 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenville
- Pitt County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital6,093FTE
- Pitt County SchoolsSchool district2,948FTE
- City of GreenvilleExecutive and legislative office combinations1,395
- Physicians East, P.A.- CorporateMds' offices608
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs346
- Cypress Glen Retirement CommunityRetirement homes with nursing care251
- Eastern Carolina Vacational CenterRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational171
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,811 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of GreenvilleRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenville’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 Pitt County and the Greenville, NC metro.
Greenville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenville$236,340
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Greenville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 days — 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.
- Greenville27.48%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Greenville25
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenville319
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenville98
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Greenville$240,727
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Greenville97.69%
Zip codes with a Greenville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Greenville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27858 | Greenville | 58,774 | $1,586 | $266,321 |
| 27834 | Greenville | 56,347 | $1,423 | $210,230 |