Leland, North Carolina.
Typical home $382,634 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,697 (+4.1%). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,081 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,547 -0%
- $384,181$382,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,556 +24%
- $309,078$382,634 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.
- Leland$2,008
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Leland, NC fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Leland, NC rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Leland runs $894/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,062 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,590 a month against $1,697 rent: a $2,008 mortgage payment, plus $172 property tax and $410 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Leland
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,590
- Renting$1,697
- Mortgage only$2,008
Property tax · $172/mo 0.54% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brunswick County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $410/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Leland, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Leland is a town of 22,908 people in Brunswick County. Half its households earn more than $91,977 a year and half less, against $77,024 across Brunswick County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Leland was 3.4% in August 2026, and Brunswick County had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Leland is a town in Brunswick County where residents are older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a coastal county. Winters are mild, with a little snow only now and then, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Walmart, the Town of Leland's Town Hall and Lowes Foods are among the town's largest workplaces. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, a fair number of people work from home, and the typical trip to work is a modest one.
Things to do. The Brunswick River and the Black River are both a short drive away, and the Cameron Art Museum is close by as well. A longer drive leads to Fort Fisher, a fort on the coast, for those who like history.
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- 13,219households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brunswick County had 43,201 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilmington International Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leland
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores200
- Funston CompanyAnchored earth retention contractors199
- Town of Leland: Town HallGeneral public administration131
- Lowes FoodsGrocery stores115
- Food LionGrocery stores93
- Brunswick Regional Water & Sewer H2GOWater treatment and distribution76
- Food LionGrocery stores64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,355 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Brunswick County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Leland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leland$382,634
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Leland listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Leland35.78%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Leland40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leland299
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leland78
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Leland$363,203
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Leland98.83%
Zip codes with a Leland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.