Murfreesboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $126,647 (+7.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,142 +8%
- $117,505$126,647 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,309 +15%
- $110,338$126,647 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.
- Murfreesboro$665
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Murfreesboro, NC rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina
Murfreesboro is a town of 2,619 people in Hertford County. Half its households earn more than $39,914 a year and half less, against $45,537 across Hertford County. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Hertford County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hertford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Murfreesboro is a small town in Hertford County, in the northeastern part of North Carolina. Households here earn less than the county as a whole, and homes are somewhat more often lived in by their owners than rented, though a good number of people rent. Winters are cool, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot. Rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Hertford County, the largest workplaces include East Carolina Health, Nucor Steel Hertford County and Hertford County Schools. Jobs in the county have slipped a little over the past year, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Brady C. Jefcoat Museum is a local museum, and Worrell Mill Swamp is a waterway close at hand. A short drive away, the Meherrin River offers a place to be out on the water. Farther afield, Merchants Millpond State Park is a protected natural area that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 1,111households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Hertford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hertford County had 8,390 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murfreesboro weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hertford County
- Trillium - AhoskieMental health facilities, residential1,631
- Nucor Steel Hertford CountyFence posts, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills487
- East Carolina HealthGeneral hospital437FTE
- Hertford County SchoolsSchool district379FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters194
- Roanoke-Chowan Community CollegeTwo-year college178
- Chowan UniversityUniversity or college143
- Berry GlobalAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,698 people in all across the county; Murfreesboro has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murfreesboro’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 Hertford County.
Murfreesboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murfreesboro$126,647
- 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.
- Murfreesboro16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Murfreesboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murfreesboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.