Milton, North Carolina.
Typical home $157,316 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$500 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,110 +6%
- $148,206$157,316 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,102 +29%
- $122,214$157,316 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.
- Milton$826
- 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 Milton, NC rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina
Milton is a town of 155 people in Caswell County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Caswell County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caswell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a very small town in Caswell County, North Carolina, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Winters are cold and summers are hot. January is the coldest month, with frosty nights, and July is the warmest. A little snow falls most winters, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Caswell County, some of the largest workplaces are the county government, Caswell County Schools and R.W. S. Construction. Incomes across the county run below the national level, and there were slightly fewer jobs across the county last year than the year before. Unemployment across Caswell County has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Virginia International Raceway, a race track in or beside town, is the best known place nearby. For time on the water, Hyco Lake is a short drive away, and so is Cane Creek, a river. South Boston Speedway, another race track, is a longer drive.
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What people in Caswell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caswell County had 2,978 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville Regional Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caswell County
- County of CaswellExecutive and legislative office combinations338
- Caswell County SchoolsSchool district295FTE
- R.W. S. ConstructionAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building182
- Yanceyville Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities129
- Food LionGrocery stores74
- Caswell HouseAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities40
- Eckerd Boys Residential Academy at YanceyvilleBoys' and girls' residential facilities40
- Frito-LayConfectionery merchant wholesalers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 858 people in all across the county; Milton has none of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milton’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 Caswell County.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$157,316
- 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.
- Milton5
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.