Sophia, North Carolina.
Typical home $265,679 (+2.7% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$767 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,050 +3%
- $258,629$265,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,250 +26%
- $211,429$265,679 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.
- Sophia$1,394
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Sophia, NC rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sophia, Randolph County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Sophia on its own, so the figures here are Randolph County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,022 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Randolph County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randolph County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sophia is a town in Randolph County, North Carolina, where the typical resident is middle-aged. Across the county, incomes are lower than in many parts of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool with occasional light snow, summers are hot, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Jobs in Randolph County grew over the last year, and unemployment has eased since the year before. Few people work from home, so most adults travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. The North Carolina Zoo is a zoo a longer drive away, and Caraway Speedway, a race track, is in or beside town. Uwharrie National Forest, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and offers a quieter day outdoors.
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- 57,721households
- 41.4median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Randolph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 45,446 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Randleman weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Toyota Battery Manufacturing North CarolinaBattery manufacturing2,268
- Randolph County School SystemSchool district1,893FTE
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing1,049
- American Healthcare SystemsGeneral hospital828FTE
- Asheboro City SchoolsSchool district548FTE
- Randolph County GovernmentSheriffs' offices462
- Randolph Community CollegeTwo-year college437
- Energizer Manufacturing Inc. Plant 2Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing424
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,302 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Randolph County, 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 Randolph County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Sophia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sophia$265,679
- 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.
- Sophia13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sophia5
Zip codes with a Sophia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sophia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.