Roaring Gap, North Carolina.
Typical home $410,620 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,226 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,918 +4%
- $394,702$410,620 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,577 +24%
- $331,043$410,620 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.
- Roaring Gap$2,155
- 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 Roaring Gap, NC rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roaring Gap, Alleghany County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Roaring Gap on its own, so the figures here are Alleghany County's. Half the county's households earn more than $47,172 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Alleghany County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alleghany 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roaring Gap sits in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina, within Alleghany County. Its population is older than most of the country's, and most homes are lived in by the people who own them. It is a place where people tend to know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs slipped slightly, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country. Relatively few people work from home, and winters are colder than in most of the country, with plenty of snow and rain through the year.
Things to do. Stone Mountain State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and New River, a river, is a longer drive off. Lake Louise, a lake, lies in or beside town. The Blue Ridge Music Center, a museum, and Moravian Falls, a waterfall, are both a longer drive away.
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- 5,177households
- 52.6median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Alleghany County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alleghany County had 3,404 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 19 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sparta Ssw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alleghany County
- Bottomley Evergreens & FarmsVegetable and potato farming, vegetable dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production625
- Alleghany County SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 36Spinning yarn from purchased fiber213
- Lotus Village Center for Nursing and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities130
- Amano Pioneer EclipseFloor polishes and waxes manufacturing118
- NapcoFolding boxes made from purchased paperboard90
- Alleghany Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,314 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alleghany 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 Alleghany County.
Roaring Gap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roaring Gap$410,620
- 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.
- Roaring Gap7
Zip codes with a Roaring Gap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roaring Gap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.