Kingstown, North Carolina.
Typical home $122,826 (+11.3% in a year). Shelby, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$286 (+80%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $12,512 +11%
- $110,315$122,826 since Sep 2025
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.
- Kingstown$645
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kingstown, NC rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingstown, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Kingstown is a town of 656 people in Cleveland County. Unemployment in Cleveland County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cleveland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingstown is a very small town in Cleveland County, North Carolina, where homes are modestly priced and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are fairly mild, with some snow in most years, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Cleveland County, the largest workplaces include Cleveland County Schools, Atrium Health Cleveland and Walmart. Incomes in the county are on the modest side, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. The typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is High Shoals Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away. Crowders Mountain State Park, a protected area for walking and being outdoors, is also a longer drive away, as is Kings Mountain National Military Park, an archaeological site and Revolutionary War landmark.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Cleveland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleveland County had 35,958 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shelby Northwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleveland County
- Cleveland County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
- Atrium Health ClevelandGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,422
- Gardner-Webb UniversityUniversity or college608
- Cleveland Community CollegeTwo-year college567
- Catawba Two Kings Casino494
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- Electric Glass Fiber AmericaGlass fiber, textile type, made in glass making plants404
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,307 people in all across the county; Kingstown 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingstown’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 Cleveland County and the Shelby, NC metro.
Kingstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingstown$122,826
- 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 Kingstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingstown — 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.