Mount Pleasant, North Carolina.
Typical home $379,614 (+2.2% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,187 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,130 +2%
- $371,485$379,614 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,435 +30%
- $291,179$379,614 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 Pleasant$1,993
- 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 Mount Pleasant, NC rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Mount Pleasant is a town of 1,671 people in Cabarrus County. Half its households earn more than $90,795 a year and half less, against $89,005 across Cabarrus County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Cabarrus County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Pleasant is a small town in Cabarrus County, home to a modest number of residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Typical home values are well above what many would expect for a town this size, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is moderate, so the town reads as settled and mostly owner-occupied. Winters are cool with only a little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Cabarrus County, some of the largest workplaces are Cabarrus County Schools, Atrium Health Cabarrus and Charlotte Motor Speedway. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and a fair number of residents work from home, while the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away are the small creeks Black Run Creek and Adams Creek, which suit a quiet walk along the water. Farther afield, Charlotte Motor Speedway is a race track and Bank of America Stadium a stadium, both a longer drive away. Lake Norman, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away and is a natural choice for a day by the water.
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- 775households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cabarrus County had 91,560 jobs in 2025, 4.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Concord weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cabarrus County
- Cabarrus County SchoolsSchool district4,288FTE
- Atrium Health CabarrusGeneral hospital3,467FTE
- Charlotte Motor SpeedwaySpeedways1,492
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,235
- Corning Optical Communications (COC) : ConcordOther pressed and blown glass and glassware manufacturing1,005
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services801
- Wayne BrothersFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors718
- Kannapolis City SchoolsSchool district711FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 205 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,079 people in all across the county; Mount Pleasant has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Pleasant’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 Cabarrus County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Mount Pleasant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Pleasant$379,614
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mount Pleasant 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 Pleasant28.42%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Pleasant27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Pleasant6
Zip codes with a Mount Pleasant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Pleasant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.