Rolesville, North Carolina.
Typical home $491,450 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $2,315 . Raleigh-Cary, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,375 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,720 -1%
- $497,170$491,450 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,805 +17%
- $419,645$491,450 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.
- Rolesville$2,579
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Rolesville, NC fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina
Rolesville is a town of 9,475 people in Wake County. Half its households earn more than $149,565 a year and half less, against $105,768 across Wake County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Wake County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rolesville is a small town in Wake County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and very few households fall below the poverty line. Incomes run well above the county's, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values and rents are on the high side, and the population is middle-aged on the whole.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banking, insurance and property. Within town, some of the biggest workplaces are Food Lion, Rolesville Charter Academy and Suburban Propane. Commutes are fairly long, and a good share of people work from home. Wake County has been adding jobs, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Triangle Metro Zoo is a short drive away, as is Big Branch, a small river. A longer drive brings you to Falls Lake, a large reservoir, and to William B. Umstead State Park, a protected area of woods and trails. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year, so outdoor days are easy to plan across most seasons.
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- 3,524households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wake County had 665,775 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Falls Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rolesville
- Food LionGrocery stores76
- Rolesville Charter AcademySchool district59FTE
- Suburban PropaneFuel dealers21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 97 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
- Hailrelatively high in parts of RolesvilleRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of RolesvilleRelatively 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 Rolesville’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 Wake County and the Raleigh-Cary, NC metro.
Rolesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rolesville$491,450
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rolesville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Rolesville31.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rolesville44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rolesville10
Zip codes with a Rolesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rolesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.