Roxobel, North Carolina.
Typical home $60,382 (-5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $19 (-6%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $3,434 -5%
- $63,816$60,382 since Sep 2025
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.
- Roxobel$317
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Roxobel, NC fell 5.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roxobel, Bertie County, North Carolina
Roxobel is a town of 187 people in Bertie County. Unemployment in Bertie County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bertie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roxobel is a very small town in Bertie County, in the flat farm country of northeastern North Carolina. Homes here are modest, and typical home values sit well below what many buyers expect to pay elsewhere. Fewer people here live below the poverty line than you might guess for a rural area, and winters are mild, with snow a rare sight and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and government also employing many. Across Bertie County, the largest workplaces include Perdue Foods, Bertie County Schools and East Carolina Health-Bertie. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area of river and wetland, is a longer drive away and suits anyone who likes watching wildlife. The Meherrin River, also a longer drive away, offers quiet water for paddling or fishing. Fort Branch, a fort with a history worth a visit, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Bertie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bertie County had 5,322 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewiston weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bertie County
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,901
- Bertie County SchoolsSchool district285FTE
- Fortrex - 1141 Perdue Farms Inc - LewistonJanitorial services236
- East Carolina Health-bertieCritical access hospital107FTE
- Darling Ingredients-LewistonRendering plants83
- Food LionGrocery stores60
- Mane Ingredients USAOils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, uncompounded, manufacturing60
- Three Rivers Health & Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,737 people in all across the county; Roxobel 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roxobel’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 Bertie County.
Roxobel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roxobel$60,382
- 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 Roxobel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roxobel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.