Mount Ulla, North Carolina.
Typical home $454,019 (+0.3% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,204 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,423 +0%
- $452,597$454,019 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,302 +9%
- $415,717$454,019 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 Ulla$2,383
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Mount Ulla, NC rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Ulla, Rowan County, North Carolina
Mount Ulla is a township of 1,776 people in Rowan County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Rowan County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rowan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Ulla is a small township in Rowan County, North Carolina, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and typical home values are high for a town of this size. Winters are cool, with only a little snow, and summers turn quite hot, with rain spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Some work from home, though most travel to a job. Among the largest workplaces across Rowan County are the Veterans Health Administration, Rowan-Salisbury Schools and the Daimler Truck North America Cleveland Truck Plant. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Irish Buffalo Creek is a river a short drive away, and a quiet place to be by the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Norman, a large reservoir, and to Fort Dobbs, a fort from the colonial era. Charlotte Motor Speedway, one of the best known race tracks in the country, is also a longer drive away.
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- 831households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Rowan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rowan County had 51,121 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury Wnw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rowan County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,470
- Rowan-Salisbury SchoolsSchool district2,210FTE
- Daimler Truck North America - Cleveland Truck PlantAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture1,988
- Food LionBusiness services1,947
- Rowan Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,039FTE
- Rowan-Cabarrus Community CollegeTwo-year college993
- ADUSA Dist DC 10 SalisburyGeneral warehousing and stora889
- ADUSA Services - Salisbury - Harrison RdBusiness services818
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,650 people in all across the county; Mount Ulla has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rowan County, 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 Rowan County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Mount Ulla home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Ulla$454,019
- 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.
- Mount Ulla6
Zip codes with a Mount Ulla address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Ulla — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.