Rosman, North Carolina.
Typical home $346,546 (+0.4% in a year). Brevard, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,090 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,332 +0%
- $345,214$346,546 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,452 +29%
- $268,094$346,546 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.
- Rosman$1,819
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Rosman, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rosman, Transylvania County, North Carolina
Rosman is a town of 701 people in Transylvania County. Half its households earn more than $53,626 a year and half less, against $66,184 across Transylvania County. Unemployment in Transylvania County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Transylvania 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rosman is a very small town in Transylvania County, in the mountains of western North Carolina, with the French Broad River running in or beside it. Household incomes here are below the county's, while a typical home is valued well into the mid-range for the area. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home. Winters are cold, with the coldest days in January, and some snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Transylvania County, the largest workplaces include Transylvania County Schools, Brevard College and Transylvania Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. The French Broad River runs in or beside town, and Eastatoe Falls, a waterfall, is also close by. A short drive away are Connestee Falls and Batson Creek Falls, along with Table Rock State Park and Gorges State Park, both protected natural areas. Pisgah National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, is a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Transylvania County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Transylvania County had 9,751 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 7 inches of snow and 76 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brevard weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Transylvania County
- Transylvania County SchoolsSchool district502FTE
- Brevard CollegeUniversity or college259
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores238
- LBM IndustriesConstruction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator227
- Gaia HerbsMedicinal botanical manufacturing210
- Transylvania Community HospitalCritical access hospital154FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter132
- WalmartDiscount department stores128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,865 people in all across the county; Rosman has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of RosmanRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of RosmanRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of RosmanRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rosman’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 Transylvania County and the Brevard, NC metro.
Rosman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rosman$346,546
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Rosman11
Zip codes with a Rosman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rosman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.