Macon, North Carolina.
Typical home $285,968 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$900 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,679 +5%
- $273,289$285,968 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,310 +32%
- $216,658$285,968 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.
- Macon$1,501
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Macon, NC rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Macon, Warren County, North Carolina
Macon is a town of 110 people in Warren County. Unemployment in Warren County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Warren 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Macon is a very small community in Warren County, in the rural northeast of North Carolina, close to the Virginia line. It has far fewer residents than most towns, so daily life tends to be quiet and people often know one another. The surrounding countryside of fields and woods gives it a rural character that is still close to the wider region.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities. Across Warren County, unemployment has eased over the past year and job numbers have edged up. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and snow is light while rain falls often through the year.
Things to do. The Warren County Fire Tower is a tourist attraction a short drive away. Kerr Lake, a reservoir, and Medoc Mountain State Park, a protected area, are both a longer drive away.
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What people in Warren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 2,921 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arcola weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Warren County SchoolsSchool district328FTE
- Glen Raven Norlina PlantAcrylic spun yarns made from purchased fiber215
- North America Packaging SolutionsContainer130
- Food LionGrocery stores88
- Liberty Healthcare And RehabilitaionSkilled nursing facilities80
- Food LionGrocery stores58
- Haliwa-Saponi Tribal SchoolSchool district36FTE
- Hight Family FarmsAgriculture production or harvesting crews30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 624 people in all across the county; Macon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Macon’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 Warren County.
Macon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Macon$285,968
- 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.
- Macon14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Macon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Macon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.