Lumber Bridge, North Carolina.
Typical home $224,734 (+0.7% in a year). Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$670 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,665 +1%
- $223,069$224,734 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,496 +27%
- $177,238$224,734 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.
- Lumber Bridge$1,180
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Lumber Bridge, NC rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lumber Bridge, Robeson County, North Carolina
Lumber Bridge is a town of 82 people in Robeson County. Unemployment in Robeson County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Robeson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lumber Bridge is a very small town in Robeson County, in the south of North Carolina, where most people know their neighbours and one another. Winters are cool, with snow rare, and summers are hot, with rain falling often through the year. Much of the land around the town is quiet and open.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, while others work in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Few people work from home. Across Robeson County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though there were fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Hope Mills Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and makes a pleasant outing for a slow afternoon. The Airborne & Special Operations Museum, a museum a longer drive away, tells the story of military airborne forces. Jones Lake State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers quiet walks among the trees.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Robeson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Robeson County had 37,260 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 3 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Raeford weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Robeson County
- Mountaire FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing3,500
- Public Schools of Robeson CountySchool district2,916FTE
- S.e. Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,428FTE
- Sanderson Farms St. Pauls ProcessingPoultry processing1,240
- Campbell Soup Supply CompanySoups canning1,218
- University of North Carolina at PembrokeUniversity or college992
- Robeson Community CollegeTwo-year college590
- Prestage FoodsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing453
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,763 people in all across the county; Lumber Bridge has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lumber Bridge’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 Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Lumber Bridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lumber Bridge$224,734
- 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.
- Lumber Bridge16
Zip codes with a Lumber Bridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lumber Bridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.