Kittrell, North Carolina.
Typical home $244,825 (+0.2% in a year). Henderson, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$656 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $484 +0%
- $244,340$244,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,844 +12%
- $217,981$244,825 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.
- Kittrell$1,285
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Kittrell, NC rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kittrell, Vance County, North Carolina
Kittrell is a town of 132 people in Vance County. Unemployment in Vance County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vance 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kittrell is a very small town in Vance County, North Carolina, with a population too small to fill more than a few streets. Homes here are valued above what incomes across the county would suggest, and household incomes across Vance County sit on the modest side. Winters are cool, with highs in January only a little above the cold end of the scale and lows below freezing, though snow is rare and light. Summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Kittrell most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Vance County, some of the largest workplaces are Vance County Schools, Maria Parham Medical Center and Vance-Granville Community College. Very few people here work from home, and jobs across the county have stayed close to steady from one year to the next, with unemployment slightly lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Most outings from Kittrell mean a drive. The Library and Laboratory Building-Henderson Institute, a museum, is a short drive away. Falls Lake, a reservoir, and Kerr Lake, another reservoir, are both a longer drive away and suit anyone who likes time on the water. Triangle Metro Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Vance County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vance County had 14,173 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 2 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Henderson Nnw weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vance County
- Vance County SchoolsSchool district760FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage599
- Maria Parham Medical CenterGeneral hospital555FTE
- M.R. WilliamsGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers452
- Vance-Granville Community CollegeTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters311
- Ardagh Glass Packaging HendersonGlass packaging containers manufacturing303
- Camellia Gardens Center for Nursing and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,483 people in all across the county; Kittrell 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kittrell’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 Vance County and the Henderson, NC metro.
Kittrell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kittrell$244,825
- 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 Kittrell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kittrell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.