Spring Hope, North Carolina.
Typical home $238,230 (+5.1% in a year). Rocky Mount, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$737 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,590 +5%
- $226,640$238,230 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,899 +34%
- $177,330$238,230 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.
- Spring Hope$1,250
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Spring Hope, NC rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Spring Hope, Nash County, North Carolina
Spring Hope is a town of 1,309 people in Nash County. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Nash County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nash 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spring Hope is a small town in Nash County, North Carolina, and its residents are older than in most places. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though a good share of residents do rent. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the share of people living below the poverty line is modest. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and highs a little above freezing point, while July is hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Nash County, some of the largest workplaces are the Cummins-Rocky Mount Engine Plant, Nash County Public Schools and Nash Hospitals. The typical commute is a long one, and a small share of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year earlier, and the county had more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area and Buckhorn Reservoir is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Triangle Metro Zoo, also a longer drive away, is a zoo that suits a day out with visitors or grandchildren. Imagination Station Science Museum is a museum, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 659households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Nash County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nash County had 40,231 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Mount Wilson Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nash County
- Cummins-Rocky Mount Engine PlantEngines, natural gas, manufacturing1,924
- Nash County Public SchoolsSchool district1,817FTE
- Nash HospitalsGeneral hospital1,602FTE
- Barnhill Contracting CompanyOverpass construction1,012
- EdwardsHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors625
- First Carolina ManagementHotel management services497
- HoneywellAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing428
- Nash Community CollegeTwo-year college424
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 96 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,006 people in all across the county; Spring Hope has one of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Spring Hope’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 Nash County and the Rocky Mount, NC metro.
Spring Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Spring Hope$238,230
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Spring Hope listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Spring Hope39.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Spring Hope22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Spring Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spring Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.