Staley, North Carolina.
Typical home $260,886 (+5.6% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,772 +6%
- $247,114$260,886 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,353 +31%
- $199,533$260,886 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.
- Staley$1,369
- 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 Staley, NC rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Staley, Randolph County, North Carolina
Staley is a town of 397 people in Randolph County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Staley is a very small town in Randolph County, North Carolina, with a population small enough that most residents likely know one another. Homes here are priced somewhat above what many people might expect for a place this size, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country. Winters are cool and summers are warm, with little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Randolph County, some of the largest workplaces are Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina, the Randolph County School System and American Healthcare Systems. The typical commute is a long one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, North Rocky River Prong and Bush Creek are small rivers for a quiet walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to the North Carolina Zoo, the best known place on the list, and to the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Jordan Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%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 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Siler City North 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 across the county; Staley has none 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 weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Staley’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 Randolph County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Staley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Staley$260,886
- 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.
- Staley7
Zip codes with a Staley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Staley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.