Manns Harbor, North Carolina.
Typical home $338,265 (-0.7% in a year). Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,027 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,271 -1%
- $340,537$338,265 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,643 +25%
- $269,622$338,265 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.
- Manns Harbor$1,775
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Manns Harbor, NC fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manns Harbor, Dare County, North Carolina
Manns Harbor, in Dare County, had 790 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Dare County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dare County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manns Harbor is a very small community on the mainland side of Dare County, North Carolina, where winters are cool rather than harsh, with January the coldest month. Summers are warm, peaking in July, and snow is rare. Rain and melted snow fall through the year in good measure. Typical Dare County household incomes sit well into the upper range for the state, and home values in town are in a similar range.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Dare County, the largest workplaces include Dare County itself, Dare County Schools and The Outer Banks Hospital. The typical commute is short, and Dare County's jobless rate has eased over the past year while the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, a protected historic area, and Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge are both a short drive away, as is Jockey's Ridge State Park, a protected area known for its sand dune. Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, also a protected area, is a longer drive away for those who want open shoreline and birdwatching.
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- 17 mintypical commute
What people in Dare County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dare County had 20,728 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manteo Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dare County
- Dare CountyGeneral public administration870
- Dare County SchoolsSchool district786FTE
- THE Outer Banks HospitalCritical access hospital324FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- TargetDiscount department stores167
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter126
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores110
- Spring Arbor ManagementAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,437 people in all across the county; Manns Harbor has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manns Harbor’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 Dare County and the Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
Manns Harbor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manns Harbor$338,265
- 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.
- Manns Harbor6
Zip codes with a Manns Harbor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manns Harbor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.