Saint Pauls, North Carolina.
Typical home $144,568 (-1.9% in a year). Lumberton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$418 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,730 -2%
- $147,299$144,568 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,284 +21%
- $119,284$144,568 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.
- Saint Pauls$759
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Saint Pauls, NC fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Pauls, Robeson County, North Carolina
Saint Pauls is a town of 2,045 people in Robeson County. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Robeson County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint Pauls is a small town in Robeson County, North Carolina, where owners and renters are fairly evenly balanced, with owners slightly ahead. Incomes run below the county's own, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than in most places. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here are valued well below what is typical across the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing and in shops, with professional and business services and the building trades also employing many. Walmart and Food Lion are among the largest workplaces in town, along with the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a federal agency under the Department of Agriculture. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and few work from home. Robeson County has seen unemployment ease somewhat over the past year, though it has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Hope Mills Lake is a reservoir and Jones Lake State Park is a protected area, both a longer drive away. Those who like history can visit the Airborne & Special Operations Museum, also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and brief compared with much of the country, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year, so outings are possible in nearly every season.
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- 926households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 38%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Robeson County had 37,260 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lumberton weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saint Pauls
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores115
- Food LionGrocery stores43
- Food Safety and Inspection ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture24
- Saint PaulsMail and parcel delivery22
- TransourceNew car dealers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint Pauls’ 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 Robeson County and the Lumberton, NC metro.
Saint Pauls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Pauls$144,568
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Saint Pauls 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.
- Saint Pauls21.26%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Pauls22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint Pauls6
Zip codes with a Saint Pauls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Pauls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.