Grifton, North Carolina.
Typical home $185,493 (+4.9% in a year). Greenville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$592 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,600 +5%
- $176,892$185,493 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,619 +40%
- $132,874$185,493 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.
- Grifton$974
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Grifton, NC rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grifton, Pitt County, North Carolina
Grifton is a town of 2,448 people in Pitt County. Half its households earn more than $36,794 a year and half less, against $58,188 across Pitt County; 33% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Pitt County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Pitt County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grifton is a small town in Pitt County, with a population younger than you might expect for a small eastern North Carolina community. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Homes here are worth less than in many parts of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Across Pitt County, the largest workplaces include Pitt County Memorial Hospital, East Carolina University and Pitt County Schools. Commutes are of a middling length, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights and very little snow, while summers are hot and the year is wet. For time outdoors, the Tar River and Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, a protected area, are both a longer drive away. Tryon Palace, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,096households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 33%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Pitt County 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 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kinston Ag Rsch weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pitt County
- Pitt County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital6,093FTE
- East Carolina UniversityUniversity or college5,805
- Pitt County SchoolsSchool district2,948FTE
- Patheon Manufacturing ServicesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing2,237
- City of GreenvilleExecutive and legislative office combinations1,395
- Hyster-Yale Group Americas Headquarters - DivisionForklifts manufacturing982
- Pitt Community CollegeTwo-year college882
- Hyster-Yale Materials HandlingForklifts manufacturing628
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,895 people in all across the county; Grifton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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 moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grifton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Grifton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grifton$185,493
- 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.
- Grifton18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grifton6
Zip codes with a Grifton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grifton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.