Roper, North Carolina.
Typical home $116,634 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$288 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,028 +4%
- $112,606$116,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,436 +1%
- $115,199$116,634 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.
- Roper$612
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Roper, NC rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roper, Washington County, North Carolina
Roper is a town of 485 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roper is a very small town in Washington County, in the flat, low-lying country of eastern North Carolina. Incomes in the county run below the typical American household's, and homes in the town cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rare event, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Weyerhaeuser, Washington County Schools and CAH #1 - Washington, a critical access hospital. Work has been getting a little harder to find lately, with slightly fewer jobs across the county than a year before and unemployment a little lower than it was then.
Things to do. The Roanoke River and the Chowan River are both a short drive away, and the Port O' Plymouth Museum is close by as well. For a longer outing, Pettigrew State Park and Lake Phelps are a longer drive away, offering open water and protected land to explore.
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What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 3,065 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plymouth East weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- WeyerhaeuserLumber616
- Domtar Paper Company0350
- Washington County SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- CAH #1 - WashingtonCritical access hospital94FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores71
- The Carrolton of PlymouthNursing homes71
- Pocosin Innovative Charter SchoolsSchool district36FTE
- Bastrop Skid CompanyPallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,155 people in all across the county; Roper has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roper’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Washington County.
Roper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roper$116,634
- 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.
- Roper14
Zip codes with a Roper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.