Maiden, North Carolina.
Typical home $303,844 (+1.8% in a year). Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$942 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,348 +2%
- $298,497$303,844 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,051 +33%
- $227,793$303,844 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.
- Maiden$1,595
- 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 Maiden, NC rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maiden, Catawba County, North Carolina
Maiden is a town of 3,736 people in Catawba County. Unemployment in Catawba County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maiden is a small town in Catawba County, in the western Piedmont of North Carolina. Poverty is more common here than it is for the country as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are valued well below what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect, and the winters are cool without being harsh, with the coldest days in January and hot summers peaking in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Maiden are GKN Automotive, which makes axle and differential assemblies, Ethan Allen Operations, which makes upholstered chairs, and Marcal Paper, which turns purchased paper into paper towels. The county's unemployment rate has eased a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has held about level, and a typical commute is a moderate drive, with few people working from home.
Things to do. Hickory Motor Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. Farther out, Lake Norman is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and South Mountains State Park is protected land with trails and waterfalls, both a longer drive away. The Hickory Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, offers an indoor outing.
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- 1,336households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Catawba County had 89,369 jobs in 2025, about as many as 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 89° and lows near 69°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Catawba Southwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maiden
- GKN AutomotiveDifferential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing857
- Ethan Allen OperationsChairs, upholstered household-type, manufacturing352
- Marcal Paper - Maiden/LDCPaper towels made from purchased paper153
- RHA Health ServicesResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,389 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maiden’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 Catawba County and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro.
Maiden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maiden$303,844
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Maiden listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Maiden28.87%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Maiden58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Maiden13
Zip codes with a Maiden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maiden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.