Rockingham, North Carolina.
Typical home $129,649 (+2.8% in a year). Rockingham, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$355 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,591 +3%
- $126,058$129,649 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,892 +23%
- $105,757$129,649 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.
- Rockingham$680
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Rockingham, NC rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina
Rockingham is a city of 9,243 people in Richmond County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Richmond County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockingham is a small city and the seat of Richmond County in the North Carolina Sandhills region. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes in the county run below the typical American household's, and poverty is more common here than across much of the country. Adults in town tend to be middle-aged, and a four-year degree is less common than in the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and retail close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are Perdue Foods, a poultry processor, Richmond Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes are moderate, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are Rockingham Speedway, a race track, and the National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame. Blewett Falls Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away and suits time on the water. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls fairly evenly through the year.
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- 4,041households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richmond County had 13,571 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamlet weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockingham
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,136
- Richmond Memorial HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical491
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters310
- PerdueBuilding cleaning services, interior137
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter115
- Food LionGrocery stores87
- RockinghamMail and parcel delivery48
- JB Hunt28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,422 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of RockinghamRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of RockinghamRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of RockinghamRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockingham’s 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 Richmond County and the Rockingham, NC metro.
Rockingham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockingham$129,649
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Rockingham listings — 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.
- Rockingham26.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockingham82
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rockingham19
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rockingham$152,647
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Rockingham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockingham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.