Rose Hill, North Carolina.
Typical home $156,191 (-2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$491 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,321 -3%
- $160,512$156,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,496 +40%
- $111,695$156,191 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.
- Rose Hill$820
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Rose Hill, NC fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rose Hill, Duplin County, North Carolina
Rose Hill is a town of 1,371 people in Duplin County. Unemployment in Duplin County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rose Hill is a small town in Duplin County, in eastern North Carolina, with a population small enough that most residents are likely to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes in the county run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily commute is a fairly short one.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in professional and business services. Across Duplin County, some of the largest workplaces are Butterball, which processes turkeys, Duplin County Schools, and House of Raeford Wallace, which handles poultry. Very few people work from home, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Liberty Hall, a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Singletary Lake State Park is a protected area with a lake, and Cliffs of the Neuse State Park is another protected area, both a longer drive away. Winters are mild and almost snow-free, summers are hot, and the rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 512households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Duplin County had 19,630 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wallace 1SE weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Duplin County
- ButterballTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked3,290
- Duplin County SchoolsSchool district1,203FTE
- House of Raeford WallacePoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing953
- Duplin County Local GovernmentGeneral services departments, government861
- Nash Johnsson SonsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing600
- Villari Brothers FoodsFood processing574
- Lear Guilford - KenansvilleAutomotive supplier411
- James Sprunt Community CollegeTwo-year college407
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,782 people in all across the county; Rose Hill has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rose Hill’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Duplin County.
Rose Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rose Hill$156,191
- 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 Rose Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rose Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.