Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Typical home $220,968 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $1,134 . Mount Airy, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$672 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,629 +4%
- $213,339$220,968 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,255 +26%
- $174,714$220,968 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.
- Mount Airy$1,160
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Mount Airy, NC rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina
Mount Airy is a city of 10,676 people in Surry County. Half its households earn more than $40,275 a year and half less, against $55,656 across Surry County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Surry County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Airy is a small city in Surry County, and its residents are older than in much of the country. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than not.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Mount Airy are Northern Hosp of Surry, Walmart and Mount Airy City Schools. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across Surry County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has lost some jobs.
Things to do. The Andy Griffith Museum sits in or beside town, and several creeks, including Brushy Fork and Benson Creek, are a short drive away. Hanging Rock State Park, a protected area with waterfalls such as Window Falls, is a longer drive. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, so the creeks and trails are best enjoyed in the milder seasons.
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- 4,865households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Surry County had 28,718 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 8 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Airy West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mount Airy
- Northern Hosp of SurryGeneral hospital759FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters370
- Mount Airy City SchoolsSchool district226FTE
- Renfro Brands LLC - Mount Airy Distribution CenterGeneral warehousing and storage166
- Renfro - Corporate OfficesCorporate offices149
- Carpenter CoPolyurethane foam products manufacturing148
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter145
- Insteel Wire Products Home officesDrawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,089 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Airy’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 Surry County and the Mount Airy, NC metro.
Mount Airy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Airy$220,968
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mount Airy listings, and the typical home goes pending in 44 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mount Airy30.22%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mount Airy44
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Airy138
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Airy33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mount Airy$229,130
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mount Airy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Airy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mount Airy
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27030 | Mount Airy | 36,241 | $1,163 | $219,933 |
| 27053 | Westfield | 3,068 | — | $249,424 |