Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
Typical home $89,699 (+6.6% in a year). Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$251 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,566 +7%
- $84,133$89,699 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,471 +16%
- $77,228$89,699 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.
- Scotland Neck$471
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Scotland Neck, NC rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina
Scotland Neck is a town of 1,640 people in Halifax County. Unemployment in Halifax County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Halifax 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scotland Neck is a small town in Halifax County, North Carolina, with a population that makes it a place where people tend to know one another. Homes here are inexpensive, and household incomes across Halifax County sit below what is typical for the state. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and the commute to work is a long one.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Halifax County, some of the largest workplaces are ECU Health North Hospital, Reser's Fine Foods and Halifax Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Medoc Mountain State Park and the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge are both protected areas a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head to Fort Branch, a fort that is also a longer drive away. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 1,091households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 38 mintypical commute
What people in Halifax County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Halifax County had 15,111 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer 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, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halifax County
- ECU Health North HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical705
- Reser's Fine FoodsSalads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing704
- Halifax Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital465FTE
- Smurfit Westrock Kraft PaperPaper mills437
- Roanoke Rapids City SchoolsSchool district372FTE
- Halifax County SchoolsSchool district349FTE
- PCB Piezotronics HalifaxConnectors, electronic, manufacturing324
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters281
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,410 people in all across the county; Scotland Neck has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scotland Neck’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 Halifax County and the Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
Scotland Neck home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scotland Neck$89,699
- 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.
- Scotland Neck14
Zip codes with a Scotland Neck address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scotland Neck — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.