Moncure, North Carolina.
Typical home $399,914 (+2.0% in a year). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,198 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,783 +2%
- $392,131$399,914 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,379 +31%
- $305,535$399,914 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.
- Moncure$2,099
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Moncure, NC rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moncure, Chatham County, North Carolina
Moncure, in Chatham County, had 780 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Chatham County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chatham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moncure is a very small community in Chatham County, North Carolina, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes in town are below the county's, though hardly anyone lives below the poverty line, and a typical home is valued well above what many people expect for a place this size. Winters are cold but short, with only a light dusting of snow in a typical year, summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Chatham County, the largest workplaces include Mountaire Farms, Chatham County Schools and Carolina Meadows. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Water is close at hand, with the Cape Fear River, the Haw River and the Deep River all in or beside town. Jordan Lake, a large reservoir, is a short drive away for boating and time outdoors. For a longer outing, Raven Rock State Park, a protected area along a river, is a longer drive away.
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- 1%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Chatham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chatham County had 20,318 jobs in 2025, 9.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sanford Northeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chatham County
- Mountaire FarmsChickens, slaughtering and dressing1,400
- Chatham County SchoolsSchool district1,156FTE
- Carolina MeadowsConitnuing care retirement community500
- Pathway Insurance Company NIPCAM SERVICES OF NC SILER CITYPoultry processing314
- FedExCourier and express delivery services302
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Rand Coca-Cola BeveragesBeer merchant wholesalers211
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,690 people in all across the county; Moncure 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moncure’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 Chatham County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Moncure home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moncure$399,914
- 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.
- Moncure12
Zip codes with a Moncure address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moncure — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.