Marble, North Carolina.
Typical home $235,916 (-1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$745 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,750 -2%
- $239,665$235,916 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,366 +29%
- $182,550$235,916 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.
- Marble$1,238
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Marble, NC fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marble, Cherokee County, North Carolina
Marble, in Cherokee County, had 278 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marble is a very small community in the mountains of western North Carolina, in Cherokee County, with a population too small to fill a single large neighborhood in a city. Homes here are valued above what incomes across the county would comfortably suggest, and no one in the town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with chilly days and nights that drop below freezing in January, while July brings warm days that stay well short of sweltering.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with manufacturing close behind. Across Cherokee County, the largest workplaces include Cherokee County Schools, Murphy Medical Center and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The country around Marble suits people who like water and woods. Valley River, Hanging Dog Creek and Brasstown Creek are all a short drive away, and are good for time along a streambank. A longer drive brings you to Nantahala National Forest, a large protected area of mountain woodland, and to Blue Hole Falls, a waterfall.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 7,869 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Andrews weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Cherokee County SchoolsSchool district459FTE
- Murphy Medical CenterCritical access hospital393FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- Moog, Inc - MurphyManufacturer310
- Tri-County Community CollegeTwo-year college238
- Snap-on Power ToolsHandtools, power-driven, manufacturing232
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores172
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,468 people in all across the county; Marble has none of its own. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marble’s census tracts, 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 Cherokee County.
Marble home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marble$235,916
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Marble listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Marble25.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marble24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marble5
Zip codes with a Marble address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marble — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.