Jamestown, North Carolina.
Typical home $349,169 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,991 . Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$983 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $686 +0%
- $348,483$349,169 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,473 +21%
- $288,696$349,169 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.
- Jamestown$1,833
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Jamestown, NC rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina
Jamestown is a town of 3,668 people in Guilford County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Guilford County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Guilford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamestown is a small town in Guilford County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of residents living in poverty is low. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and snow is light and occasional. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and rain is steady through the year. The Bull Run and the West Fork Deep River run in or beside town.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Some people work from home. Among the larger workplaces in Jamestown are Flowers Baking Company, Hood Container Greensboro and Teknor Apex North Carolina Company.
Things to do. Ragsdale Farm, a garden in or beside town, is close at hand, as are the Bull Run and the West Fork Deep River. A short drive away in Greensboro, the Greensboro Historical Museum and the International Civil Rights Center and Museum are both museums, and the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro is a theatre. For a longer drive, the North Carolina Zoo is one of the better known places in the area.
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- 1,589households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What people in Guilford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guilford County had 292,379 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the High Pt weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jamestown
- Flowers Baking CompanyBread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries246
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores166
- Food LionGrocery stores86
- Hood Container GreensboroCorrugated box mfg69
- Teknor Apex North Carolina CompanyCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins50
- Univar SolutionsOther chemical and allied products wholesaler36
- FirstFleetInc35
- Champion SystemsLow voltage electrical work33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 746 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of JamestownRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of JamestownRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamestown’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 Guilford County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Jamestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamestown$349,169
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Jamestown listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Jamestown28.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jamestown29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jamestown11
Zip codes with a Jamestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.