Simpson, North Carolina.
Typical home $229,687 (+4.0% in a year). Greenville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$745 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,749 +4%
- $220,939$229,687 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,083 +45%
- $158,604$229,687 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.
- Simpson$1,206
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Simpson, NC rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Simpson, Pitt County, North Carolina
Simpson is a village of 390 people in Pitt County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Pitt County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Pitt County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Simpson is a small village in Pitt County, North Carolina, where nearly all of the homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in the larger towns around it. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Pitt County, some of the largest workplaces are Pitt County Memorial Hospital, East Carolina University and Pitt County Schools. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Football fans have Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium, a stadium a short drive away. For time outdoors, Goose Creek State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Tar River is a river a longer drive away. History is close at hand too, with CSS Neuse, a museum a longer drive away.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Pitt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pitt County had 81,398 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pitt County
- Pitt County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital6,093FTE
- East Carolina UniversityUniversity or college5,805
- Pitt County SchoolsSchool district2,948FTE
- Patheon Manufacturing ServicesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing2,237
- City of GreenvilleExecutive and legislative office combinations1,395
- Hyster-Yale Group Americas Headquarters - DivisionForklifts manufacturing982
- Pitt Community CollegeTwo-year college882
- Hyster-Yale Materials HandlingForklifts manufacturing628
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,895 people in all across the county; Simpson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Simpson’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 Pitt County and the Greenville, NC metro.
Simpson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Simpson$229,687
- 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 Simpson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Simpson — 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.