Parkton, North Carolina.
Typical home $260,064 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,700 . Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$805 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,902 +2%
- $256,162$260,064 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,514 +39%
- $187,550$260,064 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.
- Parkton$1,365
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Parkton, NC rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parkton, Robeson County, North Carolina
Parkton is a town of 504 people in Robeson County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Robeson County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parkton is a very small town in Robeson County, North Carolina, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values and rents are both fairly high for a place this size, and most adults do not hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and the occasional bit of melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and other services. Across Robeson County, some of the largest workplaces are Mountaire Farms, Public Schools of Robeson County and S.E. Regl Medical Center. Commutes are long, few people work from home, and unemployment across the county has eased a little from a year earlier even as the number of jobs there has slipped.
Things to do. Hope Mills Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Jones Lake State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and the Airborne & Special Operations Museum offers a look at military history. Each of these is a longer drive from town.
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- 198households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Robeson County had 37,260 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer 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 91° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Robeson County
- Mountaire FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing3,500
- Public Schools of Robeson CountySchool district2,916FTE
- S.e. Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,428FTE
- Sanderson Farms St. Pauls ProcessingPoultry processing1,240
- Campbell Soup Supply CompanySoups canning1,218
- University of North Carolina at PembrokeUniversity or college992
- Robeson Community CollegeTwo-year college590
- Prestage FoodsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing453
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,763 people in all across the county; Parkton has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parkton’s census tracts, 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 Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Parkton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parkton$260,064
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Parkton 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.
- Parkton28.86%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parkton30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parkton9
Zip codes with a Parkton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parkton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.