Neuse Forest, North Carolina.
Typical home $309,472 (+2.6% in a year). New Bern, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$901 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,921 +3%
- $301,551$309,472 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,287 +32%
- $234,185$309,472 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.
- Neuse Forest$1,624
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Neuse Forest, NC rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Neuse Forest, Craven County, North Carolina
Neuse Forest, in Craven County, had 2,110 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $84,500 a year and half less, against $65,873 across Craven County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Craven County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Craven County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Neuse Forest is a small community in Craven County, North Carolina, where households earn more than across the county as a whole and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Homes here are worth a fair amount, and a four-year degree is held by a good share of adults. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Craven County, some of the largest workplaces are Carolinaeast Medical Center, the Craven County Board of Education schools and BSH Home Appliances. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Croatan National Forest is a protected area a short drive away, and Deep Run and Brice Creek, both rivers, are close by as well. For a longer outing, Tryon Palace is a museum, and Bogue Banks is a beach, each a longer drive away.
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- 914households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Craven County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Craven County had 40,422 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cherry Point Mcas weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Craven County
- Carolinaeast Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,533FTE
- Craven County Board of Education SchoolsSchool district1,596FTE
- BSH Home Appliances SNBDishwashing machines, household-type, manufacturing1,159
- Fortune Brands Home & SecurityFaucets, plumbing, manufacturing613
- Craven Community CollegeTwo-year college520
- International Paper - New Bern MillPulp manufacturing without making paper365
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters333
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters265
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 68 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,893 people in all across the county; Neuse Forest has none 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Neuse Forest’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 Craven County and the New Bern, NC metro.
Neuse Forest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Neuse Forest$309,472
- 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.
- Neuse Forest17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Neuse Forest7
Zip codes with a Neuse Forest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Neuse Forest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.