Longview, North Carolina.
Typical home $185,287 (+0.4% in a year). Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$597 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $687 +0%
- $184,599$185,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,570 +36%
- $136,717$185,287 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.
- Longview$973
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Longview, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Longview, Catawba County, North Carolina
Longview is a town of 5,088 people in Catawba County. Half its households earn more than $46,739 a year and half less, against $67,864 across Catawba County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Catawba County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Longview is a small town in Catawba County, North Carolina, next door to Hickory. Incomes here run well below the county's, and somewhat more households rent than across much of the area, though most homes are still lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cool and mild by northern standards, with summers that turn hot and rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. Longview has long been tied to furniture making, and Century Furniture and CR Laine Furniture are among the largest workplaces in town, along with Catawba Valley Community College. Nearly everyone travels to a job rather than working from home, and the usual commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. The Hickory Aviation Museum is in or beside town, and the Hickory Museum of Art and Hickory Motor Speedway are each a short drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Norman State Park, a protected area with a lake, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,200households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Catawba County had 89,369 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hickory Faa Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Longview
- Catawba Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college880
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Century Furniture; LLC Chair Plant 3248
- CR Laine FurnitureFurniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing214
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters199
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter144
- Carpenter CoPolyurethane foam products manufacturing142
- Century Furniture; LLC Plant 2125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,941 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Longview’s census tracts, 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 Catawba County and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro.
Longview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Longview$185,287
- 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.
- Longview14
Zip codes with a Longview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Longview — 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.