Mesic, North Carolina.
Typical home $187,798 (+14.0% in a year). New Bern, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$579 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,035 +14%
- $164,763$187,798 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,067 +43%
- $131,731$187,798 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.
- Mesic$986
- 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 Mesic, NC rose 14.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mesic, Pamlico County, North Carolina
Mesic is a town of 144 people in Pamlico County. Unemployment in Pamlico County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 10.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pamlico County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mesic is a very small town in Pamlico County, in the tidewater country of eastern North Carolina. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, while summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Pamlico County, the largest workplaces include Leggett & Platt, a manufacturer, along with Pamlico County Schools and Walmart. The county has more jobs than it did a year earlier, and unemployment there has eased over the past year.
Things to do. The Pamlico River is the best-known nearby water, a river a longer drive away. Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and the Aurora Fossil Museum are also a longer drive away. Tryon Palace, a museum, rounds out the trips worth planning, again a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
What people in Pamlico County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pamlico County had 4,072 jobs in 2025, 10.3% more 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 88° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bayboro Southwest weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pamlico County
- Leggett & PlattPrecision turned product manufacturing220
- Pamlico County SchoolsSchool district206FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters160
- Pamlico Community CollegeTwo-year college117
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores98
- Arapahoe Charter SchoolSchool district69FTE
- Principle LTCNursing homes52
- Food LionGrocery stores51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 605 people in all across the county; Mesic has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mesic’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 Pamlico County and the New Bern, NC metro.
Mesic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mesic$187,798
- 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 Mesic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mesic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.