Hamlet, North Carolina.
Typical home $127,637 (-0.3% in a year). Rockingham, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$359 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $410 -0%
- $128,047$127,637 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,056 +22%
- $104,581$127,637 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.
- Hamlet$670
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Hamlet, NC fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamlet, Richmond County, North Carolina
Hamlet is a city of 6,025 people in Richmond County. Half its households earn more than $41,590 a year and half less, against $44,883 across Richmond County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Richmond County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richmond 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamlet is a small city in Richmond County, in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most of the country. Homes are priced modestly, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, retail, and transport and warehousing. The largest workplaces in town include Richmond County Schools, Richmond Community College and Thuasne, which makes orthopedic hosiery and elastic goods. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame is in or beside town, a fitting stop in a place with deep railroad roots. Rockingham Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,455households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Richmond County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richmond County had 13,571 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamlet weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamlet
- Richmond County SchoolsSchool district939FTE
- Richmond Community CollegeTwo-year college348
- Food LionGrocery stores76
- ThuasneOrthopedic hosiery, elastic, manufacturing66
- Global Packaging Inc.-HamletFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing65
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 207 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamlet’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 Richmond County and the Rockingham, NC metro.
Hamlet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamlet$127,637
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hamlet listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hamlet24.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hamlet41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hamlet8
Zip codes with a Hamlet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamlet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.