Mayodan, North Carolina.
Typical home $155,255 (-0.9% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$453 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,473 -1%
- $156,728$155,255 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,956 +19%
- $130,299$155,255 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.
- Mayodan$815
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Mayodan, NC fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mayodan, Rockingham County, North Carolina
Mayodan is a town of 2,418 people in Rockingham County. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mayodan is a small town in Rockingham County, and its residents are older than in most American places, with a median age well above the national one. Incomes in the county run below the typical American household's, and a good share of people in town live below the poverty line. Homes here are modestly priced, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing at times and lows below it, and snow falls on a few days each year; summers are hot, and rain is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, the building trades, and schools, hospitals and social care. Sturm Ruger & Co, which makes small firearms, and Bridgestone Aircraft Tire USA, which retreads tires, are among the largest workplaces in Mayodan. Across Rockingham County there are fewer jobs than a year earlier, though unemployment has eased since last year. The typical commute is a fairly long one for a small town, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Mayo River runs in or beside town, and Mayo River State Park, a protected area, sits there too, offering a close place to walk and be near the water. A longer drive away is Hanging Rock State Park, another protected area. Martinsville Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,200households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 23,947 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danbury weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mayodan
- Sturm Ruger & CoFirearms, small, manufacturing575
- Bridgestone Aircraft Tire USARetreading tires147
- Milliken & Company Two Rivers PlantYarn spinning mills137
- Sturm Ruger & CoFirearms, small, manufacturing40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 899 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of MayodanRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of MayodanRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of MayodanRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mayodan’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 Rockingham County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Mayodan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mayodan$155,255
- 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.
- Mayodan16
Zip codes with a Mayodan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mayodan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.