Pinnacle, North Carolina.
Typical home $287,263 (+7.4% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,752 +7%
- $267,511$287,263 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,647 +40%
- $205,616$287,263 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.
- Pinnacle$1,508
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Pinnacle, NC rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pinnacle, Stokes County, North Carolina
Pinnacle, in Stokes County, had 786 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Stokes County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stokes County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pinnacle is a very small community in Stokes County, a place where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes cost more than the county's incomes might suggest, and winters are cold without being severe, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Stokes County, the largest workplaces include Stokes County Schools, the County of Stokes and Walmart. Jobs in the county shrank over the past year, though unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Hanging Rock State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Tory's Falls is a waterfall nearby as well. Pilot Mountain State Park, another protected area, is also a short drive off. For a day of history and art, Old Salem, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Stokes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stokes County had 7,553 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rural Hall weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stokes County
- Stokes County SchoolsSchool district772FTE
- County of StokesPersonnel offices, government580
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- wielandCopper and copper-based shapes made from purchased metal or scrap228
- King OperatorSkilled nursing facilities104
- Village Care of KingSkilled nursing facilities101
- Lifebrite Comm Hosp of StokesCritical access hospital98FTE
- City of KingMunicipal government97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,648 people in all across the county; Pinnacle has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pinnacle’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 Stokes County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Pinnacle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pinnacle$287,263
- 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.
- Pinnacle14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pinnacle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pinnacle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.