Linwood, North Carolina.
Typical home $269,489 (+4.7% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$871 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,129 +5%
- $257,360$269,489 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,497 +44%
- $186,992$269,489 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.
- Linwood$1,414
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Linwood, NC rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Linwood on its own, so the figures here are Davidson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,172 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Davidson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Davidson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linwood is a small community in Davidson County, North Carolina, where many residents are at mid-life or older. Across Davidson County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes sit below the county's typical level in some areas of the town. Home values across the county are modest for the region, and winters are cool and mild with little snow, while summers are hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops, and professional and business services. Unemployment across Davidson County has eased over the past year, although the county's number of jobs dipped slightly. Most people commute by car to a workplace, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. High Rock Lake, a reservoir a longer drive away, offers open water for boating and fishing. The North Carolina Transportation Museum, a short drive away, is a museum of rail and transport history. Boone's Cave Park, also a short drive away, is a park for walking and time outdoors.
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- 69,846households
- 42.2median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Davidson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davidson County had 46,241 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Davidson County
- Davidson County SchoolsSchool district2,125FTE
- Davidson County GovernmentPublic property management services, government1,549
- Davidson-Davie Community CollegeTwo-year college794
- Mohawk IndustriesEngineered wood784
- ASCO Power TechnologiesSheet metal work manufacturing754
- Thomasville Medical CenterGeneral hospital693FTE
- Atrium Windows & DoorWindow sashes, vinyl, manufacturing647
- Lexington Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital562FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 103 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,751 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Davidson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Davidson County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Linwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linwood$269,489
- 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.
- Linwood8
Zip codes with a Linwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.