Harrells, North Carolina.
Typical home $165,490 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,276 +3%
- $161,215$165,490 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,841 +18%
- $140,650$165,490 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.
- Harrells$869
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Harrells, NC rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harrells, Sampson County, North Carolina
Harrells is a town of 160 people in Sampson County. Unemployment in Sampson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sampson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harrells is a very small town in Sampson County, in the flat farm country of eastern North Carolina. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across the country, and the town is far smaller than most places people think of as a town. Winters are mild and cold snaps are short, with snow a rare sight, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Sampson County, some of the largest workplaces are Smithfield Clinton, Sampson County Schools and Sampson Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Six Runs Creek is a river a short drive away, a quiet spot for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to Singletary Lake State Park, a protected area built around a lake, and to Moores Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site. Most of what is nearby is outdoors, along rivers, lakes and woodland.
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What people in Sampson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sampson County had 17,386 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willard Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sampson County
- Smithfield ClintonPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants1,289
- Sampson County SchoolsSchool district1,038FTE
- Prestage FarmsHog and pig farming709
- Harnett Health SystemGeneral hospital686FTE
- County of SampsonGeneral services departments, government621
- Sampson Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital408FTE
- Clinton City SchoolsSchool district387FTE
- Sampson Community CollegeTwo-year college356
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,739 people in all across the county; Harrells has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Harrells’ 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 Sampson County.
Harrells home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harrells$165,490
- 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.
- Harrells12
Zip codes with a Harrells address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harrells — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.