Sedalia, North Carolina.
Typical home $187,212 (+0.8% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$355 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,554 +1%
- $185,658$187,212 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,126 +8%
- $173,086$187,212 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.
- Sedalia$983
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Sedalia, NC rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sedalia, Guilford County, North Carolina
Sedalia is a town of 676 people in Guilford County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Guilford County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sedalia is a very small town in Guilford County, North Carolina, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Typical home values are modest, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Guilford County, some of the largest workplaces are Guilford County Schools, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Palmer Memorial Institute, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Greensboro Historical Museum and the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, both museums in Greensboro. For a longer outing, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park is a historic battlefield site a longer drive away.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guilford County had 292,379 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burlington Alamance Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Guilford County
- Guilford County SchoolsSchool district9,392FTE
- THE Moses H. Cone Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital6,040FTE
- University of North Carolina at GreensboroUniversity or college2,677
- Volvo Group NA GreensboroCorporate offices2,455
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,093
- North Carolina A & T State UniversityUniversity or college2,014
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,863
- City of High PointGeneral public administration1,534
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 676 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 99,326 people in all across the county; Sedalia has none 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sedalia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Guilford County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Sedalia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sedalia$187,212
- 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 Sedalia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sedalia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.