Hookerton, North Carolina.
Typical home $165,883 (+3.9% in a year). Kinston, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$483 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,300 +4%
- $159,583$165,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,230 +26%
- $131,653$165,883 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.
- Hookerton$871
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Hookerton, NC rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hookerton, Greene County, North Carolina
Hookerton is a town of 413 people in Greene County. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greene 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hookerton is a very small town in Greene County, North Carolina, where people tend to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Greene County, some of the largest workplaces are Greene County Schools, Food Lion and Ham Produce, a fresh vegetable wholesaler. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Fort Neoheroka, an archaeological site, and Wheat Swamp, a river, lie a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Tar River and to CSS Neuse, a museum. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain and some melted snow spread through the year.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
What people in Greene County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 4,444 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer 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 91° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Snow Hill Waste Water Treament weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Greene County SchoolsSchool district444FTE
- H&T TransitAgricultural products trucking, local233
- Ham ProduceVegetables, fresh, merchant wholesalers98
- Principle Long Term CareSkilled nursing facilities73
- Food LionGrocery stores66
- R. A. Wood FarmsTobacco farming, field and seed production28
- Snow HillAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities23
- H G Fields & SonFarm labor contractors20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 601 people in all across the county; Hookerton has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hookerton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Greene County and the Kinston, NC metro.
Hookerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hookerton$165,883
- 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 Hookerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hookerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.