Maple Hill, North Carolina.
Typical home $240,168 (+5.0% in a year). Jacksonville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$720 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,530 +5%
- $228,638$240,168 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,699 +33%
- $180,468$240,168 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.
- Maple Hill$1,261
- 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 Maple Hill, NC rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maple Hill, Onslow County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Maple Hill on its own, so the figures here are Onslow County's. Half the county's households earn more than $68,148 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Onslow County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Onslow County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maple Hill sits in Onslow County in eastern North Carolina, where winters are mild compared with much of the country and summers are hot. Across Onslow County, residents are younger than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes tend to cost less than the national typical, and the county is wetter than most of the country, with a good deal of rain across the year and only a little snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with professional and business services also common. Across Onslow County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs dipped slightly in the most recent year. A commute to work is fairly short, and fewer people work from home than in many parts of the country.
Things to do. Hammocks Beach State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, with its quiet shoreline and natural setting. Onslow Beach, also a longer drive away, is a beach for an easy day by the water. The Museum of the Marine, another longer drive away, is a museum for an indoor visit on a day out.
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- 75,265households
- 27.7median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Onslow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Onslow County had 53,881 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New River Mcaf weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Onslow County
- Onslow County SchoolsSchool district3,501FTE
- Onslow Memorial Hospital MainGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,172
- Onslow Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital883FTE
- Coastal Carolina Community CollegeTwo-year college599
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters361
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Brynn Marr HospitalPsychiatric hospital183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 88 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,860 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Onslow County, 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 Onslow County and the Jacksonville, NC metro.
Maple Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maple Hill$240,168
- 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 Maple Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maple Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.