Red Cross, North Carolina.
Typical home $330,351 (-0.0% in a year). Albemarle, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,006 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $124 -0%
- $330,475$330,351 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,547 +25%
- $264,804$330,351 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.
- Red Cross$1,734
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Red Cross, NC fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Red Cross, Stanly County, North Carolina
Red Cross is a town of 762 people in Stanly County. Half its households earn more than $64,500 a year and half less, against $60,704 across Stanly County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Stanly County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Red Cross is a very small town in Stanly County, North Carolina, where residents are somewhat younger than in many small places and household incomes run a little above the county's. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for the region, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country. Winters are cool and short, with snow a rare event, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and professional and business services close behind. Across Stanly County, some of the largest workplaces are Stanly County Schools, Atrium Health Stanly and Michelin Aircraft Tire Co. The commute is a fairly long one, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Clear Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Uwharrie National Forest and Morrow Mountain are protected areas for walking and time outdoors, and High Rock Lake is a reservoir for anyone who likes to be near the water. Each of these is a longer drive away.
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- 376households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stanly County had 23,791 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° 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 Albemarle weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanly County
- Stanly County SchoolsSchool district1,012FTE
- Stanly Community CollegeTwo-year college584
- Atrium Health StanlyGeneral hospital546FTE
- Cast Iron DivisionCast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing543
- Michelin Aircraft Tire CoAircraft tire manufacturing489
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- MonarchHuman services non-profit287
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,925 people in all across the county; Red Cross has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Red Cross’ 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 Stanly County and the Albemarle, NC metro.
Red Cross home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Red Cross$330,351
- 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 Red Cross address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Red Cross — 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.