Mount Olive, North Carolina.
Typical home $121,736 (-2.0% in a year). Goldsboro, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$256 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,477 -2%
- $124,214$121,736 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,048 +3%
- $118,688$121,736 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 Olive$639
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mount Olive, NC fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Olive, Duplin County, North Carolina
Mount Olive is a town of 4,198 people in Duplin County. Half its households earn more than $48,700 a year and half less, against $55,148 across Duplin County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Duplin County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Olive is a small town in Duplin County, North Carolina, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Among the town's largest workplaces are the University of Mount Olive, Walmart and Genesis HealthCare. Commutes are short, few people work from home, and Duplin County has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Several rivers and creeks run through the surrounding countryside, including the Northeast Cape Fear River, a longer drive away. Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. History lovers can visit the CSS Neuse museum, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 1,677households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Duplin County had 19,630 jobs in 2025, 1.0% 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 89° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Olive 6SE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mount Olive
- University of Mount OliveUniversity or college301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters247
- Genesis HealthCareHomes for the elderly with nursing care80
- Sodexo at University of Mt. Olive DiningFood service contractors71
- Food LionGrocery stores68
- Mount OliveMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 492 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Olive’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 Duplin County and the Goldsboro, NC metro.
Mount Olive home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Olive$121,736
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mount Olive listings — 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 Olive25.13%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Olive20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mount Olive address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Olive — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.