Hemby Bridge, North Carolina.
Typical home $328,140 (+0.2% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$988 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $799 +0%
- $327,341$328,140 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,497 +27%
- $257,643$328,140 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.
- Hemby Bridge$1,722
- 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 Hemby Bridge, NC rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hemby Bridge, Union County, North Carolina
Hemby Bridge is a town of 1,614 people in Union County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Union County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hemby Bridge is a small town in Union County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is usual across the country. Residents tend to be middle-aged, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the county. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain spread through the year and little snow to speak of.
Work. Many residents work in shops, in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home. Among the largest workplaces across Union County are Union County Public Schools, Atrium Health Union and Tyson Farms, and the county has been adding jobs.
Things to do. The Charlotte Museum of History is in or beside town, which makes it the easiest outing close to home. A longer drive brings you to Carowinds, an amusement park, and to Charlotte Motor Speedway, a race track. Freedom Park is a park that is also a longer drive away.
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- 767households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 78,177 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monroe Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- Union County Public SchoolsSchool district4,880FTE
- Brookdale Union ParkAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities2,558
- County of UnionLegislative bodies1,707
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,479
- Atrium Health UnionGeneral hospital1,371FTE
- Assa Abloy Entrance Systems USDoors, metal, manufacturing1,196
- Allegheny TechnologiesSmelting and refining of nonferrous metals, secondary1,047
- Pilgrim'sChickens, slaughtering and dressing740
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 169 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 28,533 people in all across the county; Hemby Bridge has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of Hemby BridgeRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hemby Bridge’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 Union County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Hemby Bridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hemby Bridge$328,140
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hemby Bridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hemby Bridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.