Lumberton, North Carolina.
Typical home $151,248 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,147 . Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$456 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,080 +3%
- $147,168$151,248 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,383 +29%
- $116,866$151,248 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.
- Lumberton$794
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lumberton, NC rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina
Lumberton is a city of 19,025 people in Robeson County. Half its households earn more than $42,877 a year and half less, against $41,978 across Robeson County; 31% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lumberton is a small city and the largest town in Robeson County, with a younger population than many places its size. Most homes are rented rather than owned, which is a bigger share of renters than in most of the country. Household incomes run close to the county's, and many residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and short, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good share. The largest workplaces in town include Public Schools of Robeson County, S.E. Regl Medical Center and Robeson Community College. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Carolina Civic Center, a theatre, is in or beside town. A longer drive away are Lumber River State Park and Jones Lake State Park, both protected areas suited to time outdoors. South of the Border, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away.
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- 6,901households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents 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 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lumberton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lumberton
- Public Schools of Robeson CountySchool district2,916FTE
- S.e. Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,428FTE
- Robeson Community CollegeTwo-year college590
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters405
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard292
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter142
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores127
- Wesley Pines Retirement CommunityContinuing care retirement communities127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,459 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of LumbertonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of LumbertonRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lumberton’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 Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Lumberton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lumberton$151,248
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lumberton 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.
- Lumberton21.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lumberton104
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lumberton20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lumberton$207,819
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Lumberton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lumberton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lumberton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28358 | Lumberton | 33,071 | $1,157 | $143,049 |
| 28360 | Lumberton | 12,550 | — | $185,171 |