Minnesott Beach, North Carolina.
Typical home $398,615 (+4.1% in a year). New Bern, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,219 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,585 +4%
- $383,030$398,615 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,405 +36%
- $293,210$398,615 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.
- Minnesott Beach$2,092
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Minnesott Beach, NC rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minnesott Beach, Pamlico County, North Carolina
Minnesott Beach is a town of 530 people in Pamlico County. Half its households earn more than $73,690 a year and half less, against $59,717 across Pamlico County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minnesott Beach is a very small town in Pamlico County, and its residents are older than in most American places. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and typical home values and household incomes sit well above the county's. Winters are mild and short, with almost no snow, and summers turn hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Pamlico County, some of the largest workplaces are Pamlico County Schools, Pamlico Community College and Leggett & Platt. The typical commute is a long one, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Deep Run, a river, is a short drive away, and most other outings take a longer drive. Fort Macon State Park is a protected coastal area, and Bogue Banks is a beach for days by the water. Tryon Palace, a museum, suits a quieter afternoon.
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- 326households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
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 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cherry Point Mcas weather station, 7 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; Minnesott Beach 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minnesott Beach’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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.
Minnesott Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minnesott Beach$398,615
- 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.
- Minnesott Beach17
Zip codes with a Minnesott Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minnesott Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.