Magnolia, North Carolina.
Typical home $143,552 (+2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$421 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,255 +2%
- $140,298$143,552 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,812 +24%
- $115,740$143,552 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.
- Magnolia$753
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Magnolia, NC rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Magnolia, Duplin County, North Carolina
Magnolia is a town of 831 people in Duplin County. Unemployment in Duplin County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Duplin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Magnolia is a small town in Duplin County, North Carolina, with a population younger than much of the country. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with only a dusting of snow most years, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and shops. Across Duplin County, the largest workplaces include Butterball, Duplin County Schools and House of Raeford Wallace. The commute is a little under what many people face elsewhere, and unemployment in the county is low and slightly lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Liberty Hall, a museum, is a short drive away. Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, a protected area with river scenery, and the Northeast Cape Fear River are both a longer drive away, and suit a day out rather than an afternoon.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Duplin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Duplin County had 19,630 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warsaw East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Duplin County
- ButterballTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked3,290
- Duplin County SchoolsSchool district1,203FTE
- House of Raeford WallacePoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing953
- Duplin County Local GovernmentGeneral services departments, government861
- Nash Johnsson SonsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing600
- Villari Brothers FoodsFood processing574
- Lear Guilford - KenansvilleAutomotive supplier411
- James Sprunt Community CollegeTwo-year college407
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,782 people in all across the county; Magnolia has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Magnolia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Duplin County.
Magnolia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Magnolia$143,552
- 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 Magnolia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Magnolia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.