Peletier, North Carolina.
Typical home $377,925 (+2.2% in a year). Morehead City, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,121 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,041 +2%
- $369,884$377,925 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,047 +33%
- $284,877$377,925 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.
- Peletier$1,984
- 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 Peletier, NC rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Peletier, Carteret County, North Carolina
Peletier is a town of 769 people in Carteret County. Half its households earn more than $55,893 a year and half less, against $72,322 across Carteret County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% 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 people in Carteret 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peletier is a very small town in Carteret County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are typically valued well above what those incomes might suggest. Winters are mild and short, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot by July, and rain and a little melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Carteret County, the largest workplaces include Carteret County Public Schools, Carteret County General Hospital and Carteret Community College. The typical commute is a long one, and some people work from home. Jobs across the county have grown a little over the past year.
Things to do. Hammocks Beach State Park, a protected coastal area, and the White Oak River are both a short drive away, as are the Pocosin Wilderness and Pond Pine Wilderness, which suit walkers and anyone who likes quiet country. A longer drive brings you to Bogue Banks, a beach, and to Fort Macon State Park.
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- 448households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Carteret County 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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carteret County
- Carteret County Public SchoolsSchool district1,059FTE
- Carteret County General Hospital COMGeneral hospital957FTE
- Carteret Community CollegeTwo-year college508
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters348
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- Bally Refrigerated BoxesCoolers, refrigeration, manufacturing247
- Morehead CityCity and town managers' offices237
- TransImpactTransportation management consulting services178
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,205 people in all across the county; Peletier 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Peletier’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 Carteret County and the Morehead City, NC metro.
Peletier home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peletier$377,925
- 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.
Zip codes with a Peletier address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peletier — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.