Shawboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $393,597 (+1.3% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,166 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,128 +1%
- $388,469$393,597 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,684 +30%
- $301,913$393,597 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.
- Shawboro$2,066
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Shawboro, NC rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Shawboro, Camden County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Shawboro on its own, so the figures here are Camden County's. Half the county's households earn more than $91,078 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Camden County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Camden County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shawboro is a small community in Camden County, in the northeastern corner of North Carolina, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters bring cold spells but seldom any snow, summers are hot, and rain falls often through the year, so the land is usually wet.
Work. Across Camden County, unemployment is low and has eased over the past year, although the number of jobs has shrunk recently. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, or government. Getting to work usually means a drive of some length, so the commute takes up a fair part of the day.
Things to do. North River and the North River Game Land are both a short drive away, offering a river and a protected area close to home. For a longer outing, the Military Aviation Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 4,011households
- 40.8median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Camden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Camden County had 1,198 jobs in 2025, 5.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabeth City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camden County
- Camden County SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- MonarchGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 27 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Camden 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 Camden County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Shawboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shawboro$393,597
- 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.
- Shawboro9
Zip codes with a Shawboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shawboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Shawboro
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27973 | Shawboro | 1,117 | — | $400,697 |
| 27974 | Shiloh | 858 | — | $332,457 |