Jackson, North Carolina.
Typical home $113,299 (+6.0% in a year). Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$327 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,363 +6%
- $106,936$113,299 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,434 +13%
- $99,865$113,299 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.
- Jackson$595
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Jackson, NC rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina
Jackson is a town of 430 people in Northampton County. Half its households earn more than $49,048 a year and half less, against $50,086 across Northampton County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Northampton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jackson is a very small town and the seat of Northampton County, in the northeast of North Carolina. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and a good many residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in government. Across Northampton County, some of the largest workplaces are Northampton County Schools, the county government and Hampton Farms, which processes peanuts and other crops. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Lake Gaston is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the Meherrin River is another river within a longer drive. Medoc Mountain State Park, a protected area also a longer drive from town, is a place for walking among the woods and streams.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Northampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 4,699 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton County
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse531
- Northampton CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local474
- Northampton County SchoolsSchool district251FTE
- Severn Hampton FarmsRoasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing248
- KIPP Gaston College Preparatory SchoolsSchool district187FTE
- Hampton FarmsPostharvest crop activities183
- West Fraser, Inc Seaboard Lumber MillSawmills159
- Glover Construction CoExcavation contractors124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,208 people in all across the county; Jackson has two 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 weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jackson’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 Northampton County and the Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
Jackson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jackson$113,299
- 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 Jackson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jackson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.