Pembroke, North Carolina.
Typical home $146,865 (+2.6% in a year). Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$439 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,679 +3%
- $143,186$146,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,230 +28%
- $114,635$146,865 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.
- Pembroke$771
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Pembroke, NC rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pembroke, Robeson County, North Carolina
Pembroke is a town of 2,823 people in Robeson County. Half its households earn more than $25,889 a year and half less, against $41,978 across Robeson County; 39% of its people live below the poverty line. 31% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 69% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pembroke is a small town in Robeson County with a very young population, far younger than most American towns. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Most households rent rather than own, and homes are priced modestly. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and rain and a little melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and the building trades close behind. The largest workplaces in town include Food Lion, Genesis Healthcare and the Veterans Health Administration. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and most people commute a short distance, with only a small number working from home. Across Robeson County, jobs have become somewhat fewer over the past year.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Givens Performing Arts Center is a theatre, and Grace P. Johnson Stadium is the local stadium. A longer drive away, South of the Border is an amusement park, and Lumber River State Park is a protected area for time outdoors.
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- 1,189households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 39%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%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 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lumberton Municipal Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pembroke
- Steven Charles PembrokeBaked goods, frozen, manufacturing220
- Food LionGrocery stores62
- Genesis HealthcareGroup homes for the disabled with nursing care53
- Old Main Stream SchoolsSchool district40FTE
- Scotland Health Care SystemFamily physicians' offices37
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs35
- Alliance Integrated SolutionsBrush removal services25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 397 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pembroke’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 Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Pembroke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pembroke$146,865
- 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.
- Pembroke13
Zip codes with a Pembroke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pembroke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.