Harmony, North Carolina.
Typical home $288,303 (+5.2% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$910 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,219 +5%
- $274,084$288,303 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,995 +29%
- $224,308$288,303 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.
- Harmony$1,513
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Harmony, NC rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harmony, Iredell County, North Carolina
Harmony is a town of 543 people in Iredell County. Unemployment in Iredell County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iredell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harmony is a very small town in Iredell County, North Carolina, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Residents are younger than in many places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain. Homes here cost less than they would in much of the country.
Work. Most residents find work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Across Iredell County, the largest workplaces include Iredell-Statesville Schools, Iredell Memorial Hospital and the City of Statesville. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home, so a good share of the day is spent on the road. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Norman State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Tanglewood Park is another, with more green space to explore. Fans of motorsport can head to North Wilkesboro Speedway, a race track also a longer drive away. History lovers may enjoy Fort Dobbs, a fort that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Iredell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iredell County had 81,030 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 5 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Statesville Nne weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iredell County
- Iredell-Statesville SchoolsSchool district2,477FTE
- Iredell Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,260FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse817
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage765
- Mooresville Graded School DistrictSchool district762FTE
- City of StatesvilleGeneral public administration678
- Cheney Brothers Statesville671
- DENSO Manufacturing North CarolinaAir-conditioners, motor vehicle, manufacturing650
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 194 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 24,242 people in all across the county; Harmony has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Harmony’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 Iredell County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Harmony home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harmony$288,303
- 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.
- Harmony10
Zip codes with a Harmony address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harmony — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.