Manson, North Carolina.
Typical home $232,712 (+2.4% in a year). Henderson, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$681 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,489 +2%
- $227,223$232,712 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,195 +22%
- $190,517$232,712 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.
- Manson$1,221
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Manson, NC rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manson, Warren County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Manson on its own, so the figures here are Warren County's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,638 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manson is a small town in Warren County, North Carolina, in the north of the state, close to rivers and lakes. Winters are cold and summers are hot, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and jobs have grown slightly since the year before. Relatively few people work from home, and most homes across the county are lived in by their owners.
Things to do. Kerr Lake State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Elm Hill Archaeological Site. The Warren County Fire Tower, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.
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- 8,147households
- 49.6median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
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 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the John H Kerr Dam weather station, 8 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. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Warren County, 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 Warren County and the Henderson, NC metro.
Manson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manson$232,712
- 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.
- Manson6
Zip codes with a Manson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.