Macclesfield, North Carolina.
Typical home $158,007 (+3.5% in a year). Rocky Mount, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$509 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,275 +3%
- $152,731$158,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,747 +38%
- $114,260$158,007 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.
- Macclesfield$829
- 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 Macclesfield, NC rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Macclesfield, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Macclesfield is a town of 413 people in Edgecombe County. Unemployment in Edgecombe County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Edgecombe County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Macclesfield is a very small town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, with a population younger than the typical American community. A larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is true across the country, and the typical home here is modest in price. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and only a little snow, while summers run hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Macclesfield work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Edgecombe County, the biggest employers include Edgecombe County Public Schools, Sara Lee Frozen Bakery and ABB. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For a day out, Imagination Station Science Museum is one of the nearer-known museums and is a longer drive away. Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium, a college football stadium, is also a longer drive away. Those who like the water can head to Buckhorn Reservoir, again a longer drive away.
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- 19%below the poverty line
What people in Edgecombe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edgecombe County had 14,827 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° 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 Rocky Mount Ese weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edgecombe County
- Edgecombe County Public SchoolsSchool district744FTE
- Sara Lee Frozen BakeryFrozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries646
- ABBCapacitors, electronic, fixed and variable, manufacturing521
- East Carolina Health - HeritageGeneral hospital428FTE
- Edgecombe Community CollegeTwo-year college406
- Hitachi Astemo IndianaElectric automobiles for highway use manufacturing337
- Air Distribution TechnologiesManufacturer of hvac276
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters241
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,717 people in all across the county; Macclesfield has none 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Macclesfield’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 Edgecombe County and the Rocky Mount, NC metro.
Macclesfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Macclesfield$158,007
- 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.
Zip codes with a Macclesfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Macclesfield — 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.