Ruffin, North Carolina.
Typical home $202,793 (+2.9% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$536 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,683 +3%
- $197,109$202,793 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,815 +9%
- $185,978$202,793 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.
- Ruffin$1,064
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Ruffin, NC rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ruffin, Rockingham County, North Carolina
Ruffin, in Rockingham County, had 322 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rockingham County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ruffin is a very small community in Rockingham County, North Carolina, with far fewer people than a typical town. Homes here are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with a little snow most years, and summers turn hot, with steady rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Rockingham County, the largest workplaces include Rockingham County Schools, Sturm Ruger & Co and Nestle Purina Petcare in Eden. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Outdoor places are within reach for those willing to drive. Mayo River State Park and Haw River State Park are protected areas, and the Smith River is a river a longer drive away. Fans of racing can head to Martinsville Speedway, a race track that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Rockingham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 23,947 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 7 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reidsville Northwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockingham County
- Rockingham County SchoolsSchool district1,465FTE
- Cone Health634
- Sturm Ruger & CoFirearms, small, manufacturing575
- GildanGeneral warehousing and storage516
- Nestle Purina Petcare - EdenDog and cat food, manufacturing511
- Dorada FoodsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked434
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Frontier Spinning MillsCotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber279
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,555 people in all across the county; Ruffin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ruffin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rockingham County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Ruffin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ruffin$202,793
- 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.
- Ruffin12
Zip codes with a Ruffin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ruffin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.