Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $550,401 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,872 (+4.2%). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,598 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,417 +0%
- $547,984$550,401 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,338 +27%
- $434,063$550,401 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.
- Pittsboro$2,889
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Pittsboro, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pittsboro, NC rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pittsboro runs $1,899/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,084 in May 2024.
That is $3,771 a month against $1,872 rent: a $2,889 mortgage payment, plus $293 property tax and $589 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pittsboro
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$3,771
- Renting$1,872
- Mortgage only$2,889
Property tax · $293/mo 0.64% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Chatham County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $589/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 Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina
Pittsboro is a town of 4,537 people in Chatham County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Chatham County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% 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. Pittsboro is a small town and the seat of Chatham County, with a median age that runs older than the typical American town's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents sit on the high side. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in government. Across Chatham County, some of the largest workplaces are Mountaire Farms, Chatham County Schools and Carolina Meadows, a continuing care retirement community. The commute is a long one for many people, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Carolina Tiger Rescue, a zoo, is in or beside town. Jordan Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, and Brooks Creek is also a short drive away. The North Carolina Botanical Garden is a longer drive away.
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- 1,927households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chatham County had 20,318 jobs in 2025, 9.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatham Wtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chatham County
- Mountaire FarmsChickens, slaughtering and dressing1,400
- Chatham County SchoolsSchool district1,156FTE
- Carolina MeadowsConitnuing care retirement community500
- Pathway Insurance Company NIPCAM SERVICES OF NC SILER CITYPoultry processing314
- FedExCourier and express delivery services302
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Rand Coca-Cola BeveragesBeer merchant wholesalers211
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,690 people in all across the county; Pittsboro has two 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pittsboro’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 Chatham County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Pittsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pittsboro$550,401
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Pittsboro listings, and the typical home goes pending in 32 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Pittsboro36.17%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pittsboro32
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pittsboro142
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pittsboro40
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pittsboro$620,536
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pittsboro98.71%
Zip codes with a Pittsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pittsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.