Pelham, North Carolina.
Typical home $170,344 (+2.5% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$490 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,161 +3%
- $166,183$170,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,178 +18%
- $144,166$170,344 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.
- Pelham$894
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Pelham, NC rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pelham, Caswell County, North Carolina
Pelham is a township of 3,316 people in Caswell County. Half its households earn more than $47,772 a year and half less, against $59,755 across Caswell County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Caswell County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pelham is a small township in Caswell County, North Carolina, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with only light snowfall and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Caswell County, some of the largest workplaces are the county government, Caswell County Schools and Food Lion. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is fairly long.
Things to do. The Sandy River is a short drive away, and so is the Danville Science Center, a museum. Farther afield, Haw River State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 1,447households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caswell County had 2,978 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caswell County
- County of CaswellExecutive and legislative office combinations338
- Caswell County SchoolsSchool district295FTE
- R.W. S. ConstructionAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building182
- Yanceyville Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities129
- Food LionGrocery stores74
- Caswell HouseAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities40
- Eckerd Boys Residential Academy at YanceyvilleBoys' and girls' residential facilities40
- Frito-LayConfectionery merchant wholesalers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 858 people in all across the county; Pelham has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Caswell County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Caswell County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Pelham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pelham$170,344
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pelham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pelham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.