Morven, North Carolina.
Typical home $88,278 (-4.7% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$280 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,364 -5%
- $92,643$88,278 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,759 +15%
- $76,519$88,278 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.
- Morven$463
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Morven, NC fell 4.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morven, Anson County, North Carolina
Morven is a town of 329 people in Anson County. Unemployment in Anson County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Anson County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morven is a very small town in Anson County, North Carolina, where people tend to know one another and life moves at an unhurried pace. Homes here are inexpensive for most of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Anson County, the largest workplaces include Anson County Schools, Atrium Health Anson and Premiere Fibers. Household incomes in the county are modest, and unemployment has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw nearby. Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, are both a longer drive away. Lake Tillery, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away and suits a day by the water.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Anson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anson County had 6,666 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wadesboro weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anson County
- Anson County SchoolsSchool district500FTE
- South Piedmont Community CollegeTwo-year college453
- HornwoodKnitting warp or weft fabric198
- Columbus Mckinnon Corporation WadesboroCranes, overhead traveling, manufacturing180
- Premiere FibersPolyester fibers and filaments manufacturing179
- Atrium Health AnsonGeneral hospital136FTE
- Anson Health and RehabilitationNursing homes111
- Darling Ingredients-WadesboroRendering plants107
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,679 people in all across the county; Morven has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morven’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Anson County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Morven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morven$88,278
- 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 Morven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.