Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Typical home $532,096 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $2,012 (+0.3%). Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,655 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $982 +0%
- $531,114$532,096 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,829 +30%
- $410,267$532,096 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.
- Pinehurst$2,793
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Pinehurst, NC rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pinehurst, NC rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pinehurst runs $1,583/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,629 in Jan 2025.
That is $3,596 a month against $2,012 rent: a $2,793 mortgage payment, plus $233 property tax and $570 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pinehurst
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,596
- Renting$2,012
- Mortgage only$2,793
Property tax · $233/mo 0.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Moore County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $570/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina
Pinehurst is a village of 17,581 people in Moore County. Half its households earn more than $109,802 a year and half less, against $86,080 across Moore County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Moore County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% more 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. Pinehurst is a village in Moore County, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are both high. A large majority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in banks, insurance and property. The biggest workplaces in Pinehurst include FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, the Pinehurst resort and The Country Club of North Carolina. A fair number of people work from home, and unemployment across Moore County has eased over the past year while the number of jobs has grown.
Things to do. Within a short drive are Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens and Aberdeen Creek, which suit walks, gardens and time by the water. Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away. Winters are cool and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls fairly evenly through the year.
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- 8,480households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moore County had 42,751 jobs in 2025, 6.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage Wtp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pinehurst
- Firsthealth Moore Regional HospitalGeneral hospital3,160FTE
- PinehurstResort hotels without casinos1,508
- The Country Club of North CarolinaGolf and country clubs240
- Pinehurst OPCONursing homes99
- Pinehurst Healthcare And Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes83
- Quail HavenNursing homes55
- The Eye Surgery Center of the CarolinasAmbulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding51
- Eaton48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,839 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pinehurst’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 Moore County and the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
Pinehurst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pinehurst$532,096
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pinehurst listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — 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.
- Pinehurst24.17%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pinehurst29
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pinehurst233
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pinehurst57
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pinehurst$578,464
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pinehurst97.25%
Zip codes with a Pinehurst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pinehurst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.