Landis, North Carolina.
Typical home $256,795 (-0.4% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$766 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,079 -0%
- $257,873$256,795 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,561 +22%
- $210,234$256,795 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.
- Landis$1,348
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Landis, NC fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Landis, Rowan County, North Carolina
Landis is a town of 3,690 people in Rowan County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Rowan County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Landis is a small town in Rowan County where almost everyone lives in a home they own, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Typical home values sit well above what the county's household incomes might suggest, and fewer residents hold a four-year degree than in many towns. Winters are mild and cool, with only a little snow, while summers are hot and rain falls plenty through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in professional and business services. Across Rowan County, the largest workplaces include the Veterans Health Administration, Rowan-Salisbury Schools and Rowan Regional Hospital. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a noticeable group of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Atrium Health Ballpark is a stadium, and the Curb Motosports Museum is a museum for those who like racing history. Irish Buffalo Creek is a river nearby for a quiet walk by the water. A longer drive takes you to Lake Norman, a large reservoir, and to Charlotte Motor Speedway, one of the best known race tracks in the region.
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- 1,632households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rowan County had 51,121 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Concord weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rowan County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,470
- Rowan-Salisbury SchoolsSchool district2,210FTE
- Daimler Truck North America - Cleveland Truck PlantAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture1,988
- Food LionBusiness services1,947
- Rowan Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,039FTE
- Rowan-Cabarrus Community CollegeTwo-year college993
- ADUSA Dist DC 10 SalisburyGeneral warehousing and stora889
- ADUSA Services - Salisbury - Harrison RdBusiness services818
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,650 people in all across the county; Landis has two of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Landis’ 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 Rowan County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Landis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Landis$256,795
- 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.
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.
- Landis18
Zip codes with a Landis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Landis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.