Rougemont, North Carolina.
Typical home $362,349 (+1.4% in a year). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,079 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,096 +1%
- $357,252$362,349 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,643 +30%
- $277,706$362,349 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.
- Rougemont$1,902
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Rougemont, NC rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rougemont, Person County, North Carolina
Rougemont, in Person County, had 1,001 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Person County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Person County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rougemont is a small community in Person County, North Carolina, home to a small number of people. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and only a light dusting of snow in a typical year, while summers run hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow arrive fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Person County, some of the largest workplaces are Person County Schools, Poly-Wood and Walmart. The county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there has eased since a year ago.
Things to do. The Eno River and the Neuse River are both a short drive away for time by the water, and Stagville, an archaeological site, is close by as well. Orange County Speedway, a race track, is also a short drive. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Falls Lake, a reservoir, and to the Nasher Museum of Art.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Person County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Person County had 9,063 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roxboro Ese weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Person County
- Person County SchoolsSchool district572FTE
- Poly-Wood LLC - North CarolinaPolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing537
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
- Piedmont Community CollegeTwo-year college233
- Spuntech IndustriesNonwoven fabrics manufacturing205
- Duke EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation172
- Louisiana-Pacific RoxboroOsb manufacturing150
- Person Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital145FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,870 people in all across the county; Rougemont 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rougemont’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 Person County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Rougemont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rougemont$362,349
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Rougemont 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.
- Rougemont23.23%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rougemont27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rougemont7
Zip codes with a Rougemont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rougemont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.