Seven Devils, North Carolina.
Typical home $554,805 (+0.2% in a year). Boone, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,833 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,184 +0%
- $553,621$554,805 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,609 +29%
- $430,196$554,805 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.
- Seven Devils$2,912
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Seven Devils, NC rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seven Devils, Watauga County, North Carolina
Seven Devils is a town of 313 people in Watauga County. Half its households earn more than $111,667 a year and half less, against $51,693 across Watauga County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Watauga County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Watauga County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seven Devils is a very small mountain town in Watauga County, home to only a small number of people. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and incomes run well above the county's, with very few residents living below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm but not hot summers and plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Watauga County, some of the largest workplaces are Watauga County Schools, Watauga Medical Center and Tweetsie Railroad. Jobs across the county were slightly fewer last year than the year before, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. Julian Price Memorial Park is a park a short drive away, and the North Toe River is a short drive away too. Land of Oz, an amusement park, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Linville Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 78%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Watauga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Watauga County had 24,591 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 59°. About 31 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Banner Elk weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Watauga County
- Watauga County SchoolsSchool district684FTE
- Watauga Medical CenterGeneral hospital682FTE
- Tweetsie RailroadAmusement parks325
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- Lees-McRae CollegeUniversity or college266
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter189
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores176
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores146
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,468 people in all across the county; Seven Devils 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of Seven DevilsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seven Devils’ 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 Watauga County and the Boone, NC metro.
Seven Devils home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seven Devils$554,805
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Seven Devils listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Seven Devils17.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seven Devils23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Seven Devils address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seven Devils — 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.