Seagrove, North Carolina.
Typical home $201,979 (+6.1% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$602 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,567 +6%
- $190,412$201,979 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,797 +25%
- $162,182$201,979 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.
- Seagrove$1,060
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Seagrove, NC rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seagrove, Randolph County, North Carolina
Seagrove is a town of 235 people in Randolph County. Unemployment in Randolph County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randolph 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seagrove is a very small town in Randolph County, North Carolina, with far fewer people than most towns on a map. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are cool, with the coldest days in January, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow fall in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Very few people work from home. Across Randolph County, some of the largest workplaces are Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina, the Randolph County School System and American Healthcare Systems. 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 North Carolina Zoo is a short drive away, as is the North Carolina Aviation Museum. Bear Creek runs in or beside town, a quiet place for a walk along the water. For a longer outing, Uwharrie National Forest is a protected area of woods and trails a longer drive away.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Randolph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 45,446 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Asheboro West weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Toyota Battery Manufacturing North CarolinaBattery manufacturing2,268
- Randolph County School SystemSchool district1,893FTE
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing1,049
- American Healthcare SystemsGeneral hospital828FTE
- Asheboro City SchoolsSchool district548FTE
- Randolph County GovernmentSheriffs' offices462
- Randolph Community CollegeTwo-year college437
- Energizer Manufacturing Inc. Plant 2Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing424
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,302 people in all across the county; Seagrove has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seagrove’s census tracts, 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 Randolph County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Seagrove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seagrove$201,979
- 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.
- Seagrove8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Seagrove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seagrove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.