Halifax, North Carolina.
Typical home $121,042 (+5.4% in a year). Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$340 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,231 +5%
- $114,811$121,042 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,937 +25%
- $97,105$121,042 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.
- Halifax$635
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Halifax, NC rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina
Halifax is a town of 170 people in Halifax County. Half its households earn more than $63,686 a year and half less, against $45,590 across Halifax County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Halifax County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Halifax 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halifax is a very small town, and its residents are older than most of the country. Household incomes in the town run higher than across Halifax County, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold but short of harsh, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and retail also employing a good number. Very few work from home. Across Halifax County, some of the largest workplaces are ECU Health North Hospital, Reser's Fine Foods and Smurfit Westrock Kraft Paper. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is somewhat lower than a year ago.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Gaston is a reservoir that is also a longer drive away. The Brady C. Jefcoat Museum, another longer drive, is the nearest place on the list for a quiet indoor visit.
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- 12%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Halifax County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Halifax County had 15,111 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roanoke Rapids Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halifax County
- ECU Health North HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical705
- Reser's Fine FoodsSalads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing704
- Halifax Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital465FTE
- Smurfit Westrock Kraft PaperPaper mills437
- Roanoke Rapids City SchoolsSchool district372FTE
- Halifax County SchoolsSchool district349FTE
- PCB Piezotronics HalifaxConnectors, electronic, manufacturing324
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters281
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,410 people in all across the county; Halifax has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Halifax’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 Halifax County and the Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
Halifax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halifax$121,042
- 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 Halifax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halifax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.