Prospect Hill, North Carolina.
Typical home $268,519 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$733 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,703 +8%
- $247,815$268,519 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,128 +11%
- $241,391$268,519 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.
- Prospect Hill$1,409
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Prospect Hill, NC rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prospect Hill, Caswell County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Prospect Hill on its own, so the figures here are Caswell County's. Half the county's households earn more than $59,755 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Caswell County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caswell County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prospect Hill is a small town in Caswell County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is older than in many parts of the country. Household incomes run lower than in much of the nation, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than in many other places. Winters are cold and the snow is light, summers are hot, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs dipped slightly in the last year. Commutes take a fair while, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Neuse River is a river a longer drive away, and it is the best known of the nearby places on this list. Virginia International Raceway, a race track, is also a longer drive away. The North Carolina Botanical Garden, a botanical garden, is another option a longer drive away.
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- 8,830households
- 46.7median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Caswell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caswell County had 2,978 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yanceyville Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caswell County
- County of CaswellExecutive and legislative office combinations338
- Caswell County SchoolsSchool district295FTE
- R.W. S. ConstructionAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building182
- Yanceyville Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities129
- Food LionGrocery stores74
- Caswell HouseAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities40
- Eckerd Boys Residential Academy at YanceyvilleBoys' and girls' residential facilities40
- Frito-LayConfectionery merchant wholesalers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 858 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Caswell County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Caswell County.
Prospect Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prospect Hill$268,519
- 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.
Zip codes with a Prospect Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prospect Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.