Newport, North Carolina.
Typical home $339,132 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,696 . Morehead City, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$989 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,942 +1%
- $334,190$339,132 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,233 +27%
- $267,899$339,132 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.
- Newport$1,780
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Newport, NC rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Carteret County, North Carolina
Newport is a town of 4,364 people in Carteret County. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Carteret County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small town on the North Carolina coast, in Carteret County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Poverty is not far from what you would find across much of the country, and only a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and rain and the occasional melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then banks, insurance and property, and government. Among the largest workplaces in Newport are Waste Industries Central Coast, Walmart and TRF Manufacturing North Carolina, which makes metal doors. Unemployment across Carteret County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. The Newport River runs in or beside town, and Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area and the Neusiok Trail are both a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. Bogue Banks, a beach, is also a short drive away. Fort Macon State Park and Cape Lookout National Seashore are protected coastal areas a longer drive away.
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- 1,664households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carteret County had 25,622 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 71°. About 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport/morehead City Weather Office weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newport
- Waste Industries Central CoastWaste collection118
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores92
- TRF Manufacturing North CarolinaDoors, metal, manufacturing58
- Food LionGrocery stores57
- Principle LTCNursing homes34
- NewportMail and parcel delivery32
- Carteret HouseAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 422 people in all. 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Newport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Carteret County and the Morehead City, NC metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$339,132
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Newport 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.
- Newport25.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newport88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newport27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.