Shallotte, North Carolina.
Typical home $316,277 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,748 . Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$910 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,227 +0%
- $315,050$316,277 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,110 +21%
- $262,168$316,277 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.
- Shallotte$1,660
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Shallotte, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shallotte, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Shallotte is a town of 4,185 people in Brunswick County. Half its households earn more than $88,367 a year and half less, against $77,024 across Brunswick County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Brunswick County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shallotte is a small town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, with household incomes above the county's and a share of residents living below the poverty line that is modest. A typical home costs well above what many small towns ask, and rents run high too. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and daytime highs on the cool side, while July brings hot days and the year is a wet one, with rain and the occasional melted snow adding up through the seasons.
Work. Most residents work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Walmart, Lowe's of Shallotte and Food Lion are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Brunswick County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year; a typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. Green Swamp, a protected area, and the Lockwood Folly River are both a short drive away, good for time outdoors on forest paths or the water. A longer drive brings you to Fort Fisher, a fort on the coast, and to Carolina Beach State Park, another protected area.
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- 2,134households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brunswick County had 43,201 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 73°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shallotte Ag weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shallotte
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters347
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter150
- Food LionGrocery stores84
- Town of ShallottePolice departments53
- BelkDepartment stores except discount department stores51
- Garris Evans Lumber CoHome centers, building materials30
- ShallotteMail and parcel delivery26
- VacasaTravel accomodation26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 813 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of ShallotteRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shallotte’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 Brunswick County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Shallotte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shallotte$316,277
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Shallotte listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Shallotte27.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shallotte71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shallotte16
Zip codes with a Shallotte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shallotte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.