Pine Level, North Carolina.
. Raleigh-Cary, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$964 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Living in Pine Level, Johnston County, North Carolina
Pine Level is a town of 2,046 people in Johnston County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Johnston County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 7.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnston County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Level is a small town in Johnston County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool, with a January that stays above freezing by day and dips below it at night, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Johnston County, some of the largest workplaces are Johnston County Public Schools, Johnston Health and Amazon. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest drive.
Things to do. The Ava Gardner Museum is a short drive away. Further afield, Cliffs of the Neuse State Park is a protected natural area, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is a museum for a longer day out. Bentonville Battlefield, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 702households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Johnston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnston County had 65,551 jobs in 2025, 7.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithfield weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnston County
- Johnston County Public SchoolsSchool district4,349FTE
- Grifols Therapeutics LLC (clayton)Plasmas manufacturing1,984
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,923
- Johnston HealthGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals IndustriesPatent medicine preparations manufacturing1,154
- Johnston Community CollegeTwo-year college760
- Johnston County Sheriff Office, E-911 Center, and Emergency ServicesLaw enforcement statistics centers, government651
- Sysco RaleighGeneral line grocery merchant wholesalers450
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,908 people in all across the county; Pine Level 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pine Level’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 Johnston County and the Raleigh-Cary, NC metro.
Pine Level home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Pine Level address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Level — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.