Marston, North Carolina.
Typical home $131,659 (+9.0% in a year). Laurinburg, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$416 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,851 +9%
- $120,808$131,659 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,728 +40%
- $93,931$131,659 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.
- Marston$691
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Marston, NC rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marston, Scotland County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Marston on its own, so the figures here are Scotland County's. Half the county's households earn more than $45,730 a year and half less; 26% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 62% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Scotland County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scotland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marston is a town in Scotland County, in the south of North Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are lower than across much of the country. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the county gets considerably more rain than most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The county's unemployment rate is lower than it was a year earlier, and it had more jobs in the most recent year than before. A larger share of people live below the poverty line than across the country, and fewer adults hold a degree, while few people work from home.
Things to do. Rockingham Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away, and Aberdeen Creek, a river, is also close by. For a longer outing, the Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 12,580households
- 38.7median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Scotland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scotland County had 12,552 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamlet weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scotland County
- Scotland Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital790FTE
- Scotland County SchoolsSchool district748FTE
- Meritor Heavy Vehicle SystemsAxle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing350
- Scotland County GovernmentCounty supervisors' and executives' offices325
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- WabtecBrakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing235
- Cascades Tissue GroupTowels, paper, made in paper mills231
- Maverick Transportation, LLC - LaurinburgGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,294 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Scotland 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 Scotland County and the Laurinburg, NC metro.
Marston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marston$131,659
- 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 Marston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.