Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Typical home $644,739 (+1.9% in a year). Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,014 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,743 +2%
- $632,996$644,739 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $139,838 +28%
- $504,902$644,739 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.
- Kitty Hawk$3,384
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Kitty Hawk, NC rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kitty Hawk, Dare County, North Carolina
Kitty Hawk is a town of 3,689 people in Dare County. Half its households earn more than $94,450 a year and half less, against $88,994 across Dare County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Dare County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in finance and property, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kitty Hawk is a small town on North Carolina's Outer Banks, in Dare County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are high. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in banks, insurance and property, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and professional and business services. Dominion Energy and R A Hoy, a plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractor, are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Dare County is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Wright Brothers National Memorial, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Jockey's Ridge State Park, another protected area. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Coquina Beach is a beach a longer drive away.
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- 1,619households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dare County had 20,728 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manteo Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kitty Hawk
- Hilton Grand Vacation Inc.50
- Dominion EnergyElectric power distribution49
- R A HoyPlumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contractor46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 145 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Kitty Hawk’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 Dare County and the Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
Kitty Hawk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kitty Hawk$644,739
- 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 6 Kitty Hawk 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.
- Kitty Hawk16.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kitty Hawk49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kitty Hawk17
Zip codes with a Kitty Hawk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kitty Hawk — 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.