Oak Ridge, North Carolina.
Typical home $604,697 (+0.7% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,698 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,968 +1%
- $600,729$604,697 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $120,344 +25%
- $484,353$604,697 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.
- Oak Ridge$3,174
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Oak Ridge, NC rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oak Ridge, Guilford County, North Carolina
Oak Ridge is a town of 7,474 people in Guilford County. Half its households earn more than $155,385 a year and half less, against $68,642 across Guilford County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Guilford County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oak Ridge is a town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes here are valued well above what is typical across the county. Household incomes run far higher than across Guilford County, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Residents tend to be middle-aged, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool but not severe, with January the coldest month and nights that dip to around freezing, and summers turn hot, though snow is light in most years and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Guilford County, the largest workplaces include Guilford County Schools, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A good share of people work from home, and the usual trip to work is a modest one. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, a short drive away, preserves a Revolutionary War battlefield and is a pleasant place for a walk. The Greensboro Science Center, also a short drive away, is a zoo and science museum. For a longer outing, Old Salem is a museum of the town's early history, and Hanging Rock State Park offers hiking and waterfalls, both a longer drive away.
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- 2,630households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guilford County had 292,379 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Piedmont Triad International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Guilford County
- Guilford County SchoolsSchool district9,392FTE
- THE Moses H. Cone Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital6,040FTE
- University of North Carolina at GreensboroUniversity or college2,677
- Volvo Group NA GreensboroCorporate offices2,455
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,093
- North Carolina A & T State UniversityUniversity or college2,014
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,863
- City of High PointGeneral public administration1,534
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 676 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 99,326 people in all across the county; Oak Ridge has two of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of Oak RidgeRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oak Ridge’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Guilford County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Oak Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oak Ridge$604,697
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Oak Ridge 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.
- Oak Ridge28.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oak Ridge33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oak Ridge10
Zip codes with a Oak Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oak Ridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.