Star, North Carolina.
Typical home $145,153 (+1.2% in a year). Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$456 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,728 +1%
- $143,425$145,153 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,711 +24%
- $117,442$145,153 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.
- Star$762
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Star, NC rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Star, Montgomery County, North Carolina
Star is a town of 806 people in Montgomery County. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Star is a very small town in Montgomery County, North Carolina, with far fewer people than most towns its readers will know. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across the county are below the national picture. Winters are mild and cool, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery County Schools, Jordan Lumber & Supply and Montgomery Community College. Very few people work from home, and a typical trip to work takes a fairly short drive. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and the county has been losing jobs lately.
Things to do. Bear Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Uwharrie National Forest is a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and the North Carolina Zoo is one of the best known places in the region. Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 8,771 jobs in 2025, 1.8% 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 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Springs Wnw weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Pathway Insurance Company NIPCAM SERVICES OF NC PLANTPoultry processing540
- Montgomery County SchoolsSchool district495FTE
- Jordan Lumber & SupplySawmills364
- Montgomery Community CollegeTwo-year college219
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- Mohawk IndustriesFiberboard165
- Saputo Cheese USABeverages, milk based, manufacturing152
- McRae Footwear Division- WadevilleBoots, rubber or rubber soled fabric upper, manufacturing147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,115 people in all across the county; Star has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Star’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 Montgomery County and the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
Star home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Star$145,153
- 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.
- Star6
Zip codes with a Star address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Star — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.