Semora, North Carolina.
Typical home $530,729 (+3.6% in a year). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,534 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,547 +4%
- $512,182$530,729 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,365 +16%
- $457,365$530,729 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.
- Semora$2,786
- 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 Semora, NC rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Semora, Person County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Semora on its own, so the figures here are Person County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,300 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Person County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Person County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Semora is a small town in North Carolina, in Person County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, the typical resident is middle-aged, and a considerable share of people live below the poverty line, with incomes lower than many elsewhere in the country. Winters are cold and summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs fell slightly over the same period. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and commutes tend to be on the longer side.
Things to do. Cane Creek and Hyco Lake are both in or beside town, so they are the easiest places to spend time outdoors. Virginia International Raceway, a race track, is a short drive away for anyone who wants a day out.
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- 16,063households
- 44.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Person County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Person County had 9,063 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yanceyville Southeast weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Person County
- Person County SchoolsSchool district572FTE
- Poly-Wood LLC - North CarolinaPolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing537
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
- Piedmont Community CollegeTwo-year college233
- Spuntech IndustriesNonwoven fabrics manufacturing205
- Duke EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation172
- Louisiana-Pacific RoxboroOsb manufacturing150
- Person Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital145FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,870 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Person County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Person County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Semora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Semora$530,729
- 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.
- Semora17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Semora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Semora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.