Laurel Park, North Carolina.
Typical home $512,817 (-0.3% in a year). Asheville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,467 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,697 -0%
- $514,514$512,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,560 +19%
- $429,257$512,817 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.
- Laurel Park$2,692
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Laurel Park, NC fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laurel Park, Henderson County, North Carolina
Laurel Park is a town of 2,250 people in Henderson County. Half its households earn more than $90,000 a year and half less, against $68,187 across Henderson County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laurel Park is a small town in Henderson County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and where incomes run well above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property also well represented. In town, Ingles Markets, Carolina Reserve Of Hendersonville and Greens at Hendersonville are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across Henderson County is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Pisgah National Forest is a protected area reached by a longer drive, as is Bridal Veil Falls, a waterfall. Together they offer walking, scenery and a touch of history close to home.
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- 1,054households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 43,873 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 7 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hendersonville Northeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Laurel Park
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores58
- Carolina Reserve Of HendersonvilleAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities43
- Greens at HendersonvilleNursing homes42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 143 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Laurel ParkRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of Laurel ParkRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laurel Park’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 Henderson County and the Asheville, NC metro.
Laurel Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laurel Park$512,817
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Laurel Park listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Laurel Park23.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Laurel Park31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Laurel Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laurel Park — 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.