Sims, North Carolina.
Typical home $292,270 (-0.6% in a year). Wilson, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$867 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,831 -1%
- $294,101$292,270 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,584 +30%
- $225,686$292,270 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.
- Sims$1,534
- 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 Sims, NC fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sims, Wilson County, North Carolina
Sims is a town of 275 people in Wilson County. Half its households earn more than $78,267 a year and half less, against $56,423 across Wilson County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Wilson County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wilson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sims is a very small town in Wilson County, home to few enough people that neighbors are likely to know one another. Residents are young for a place of its kind, and household incomes run well above the county's, with few people living below the poverty line. Homes here are typically valued at more than many would expect for such a small place.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Wilson County, the largest workplaces include Bridgestone Americas, Wilson County Schools and Merck and Co. Few people work from home, and the county has seen a slight dip in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Buckhorn Reservoir, a reservoir a short drive away, and the Imagination Station Science Museum, also a short drive away, are the closest places to spend a day. A longer drive brings you to the Ava Gardner Museum, and Fort Neoheroka, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away. Winters are cool with only a little snow, and summers are hot, so outdoor days at the water are best planned for the warmer months.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Wilson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wilson County had 34,906 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilson Southwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilson County
- Bridgestone AmericasTire manufacturing1,666
- Wilson County SchoolsSchool district1,238FTE
- City of WilsonExecutive and legislative office combinations1,087
- Merck and CoPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing635
- Fresenius Kabi USAPatent medicine preparations manufacturing628
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing585
- Smithfield Packaged MeatsMeats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants560
- Wilson Medical CenterGeneral hospital559FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,487 people in all across the county; Sims has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Sims’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Wilson County and the Wilson, NC metro.
Sims home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sims$292,270
- 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.
- Sims10
Zip codes with a Sims address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sims — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.