Scranton, North Carolina.
Typical home $159,961 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$456 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,043 +3%
- $155,918$159,961 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,995 +17%
- $136,966$159,961 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.
- Scranton$840
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Scranton, NC rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scranton, Hyde County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Scranton on its own, so the figures here are Hyde County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,713 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Hyde County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hyde County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scranton is a small town in Hyde County, on the coast of North Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the country's, with more people living in poverty than across the nation as a whole. Winters are cool and snow is rare, summers are hot, and rain falls more heavily than in most of the country.
Work. Across Hyde County, many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in shops. Fewer jobs were available last year than the year before, though unemployment has eased over the past year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Pamlico River, a river a short drive away, is one of the nearby places to visit. Lake Mattamuskeet, a lake a longer drive away, is another option, as is Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,939households
- 47.1median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Hyde County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hyde County had 1,705 jobs in 2025, 3.6% 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 89° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belhaven Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hyde County
- Hyde County SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Quality EquipmentGarden power equipment stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 20 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hyde County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Hyde County.
Scranton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scranton$159,961
- 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 Scranton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scranton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.