Maxton, North Carolina.
Typical home $103,895 (-1.7% in a year). Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$315 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,837 -2%
- $105,731$103,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,750 +25%
- $83,145$103,895 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.
- Maxton$545
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Maxton, NC fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maxton, Robeson County, North Carolina
Maxton is a town of 2,110 people in Robeson County. Half its households earn more than $22,667 a year and half less, against $41,978 across Robeson County; 43% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Robeson County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Robeson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maxton is a small town in Robeson County, North Carolina, with a young population compared with many American towns. Household incomes are well below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than is typical, and homes cost relatively little. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot, and rain and a little melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Across Robeson County, some of the largest workplaces are Mountaire Farms, the Public Schools of Robeson County and S.E. Regl Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Most people have a fairly short commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. Grace P. Johnson Stadium and the Givens Performing Arts Center, a theatre, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Rockingham Speedway is a race track and South of the Border is an amusement park, each a longer drive away. Little Pee Dee State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 910households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 43%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Robeson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Robeson County had 37,260 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurinburg Maxton Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Robeson County
- Mountaire FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing3,500
- Public Schools of Robeson CountySchool district2,916FTE
- S.e. Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,428FTE
- Sanderson Farms St. Pauls ProcessingPoultry processing1,240
- Campbell Soup Supply CompanySoups canning1,218
- University of North Carolina at PembrokeUniversity or college992
- Robeson Community CollegeTwo-year college590
- Prestage FoodsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing453
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,763 people in all across the county; Maxton has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maxton’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 Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Maxton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maxton$103,895
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Maxton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Maxton19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Maxton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maxton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.