Stokes, North Carolina.
Typical home $226,696 (+5.3% in a year). Greenville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,487 +5%
- $215,209$226,696 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,796 +39%
- $162,900$226,696 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.
- Stokes$1,190
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Stokes, NC rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina
Stokes, in Pitt County, had 357 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $59,625 a year and half less, against $58,188 across Pitt County. Unemployment in Pitt County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Pitt County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stokes is a very small community in Pitt County, North Carolina, where homes are valued a little under what a typical household earns in a few years of work. Household incomes here run slightly above the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool, with only a little snow, while summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Pitt County, some of the largest workplaces are Pitt County Memorial Hospital, East Carolina University and Pitt County Schools. Unemployment across the county has eased a little from a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. A short drive away is Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium, a stadium for college football. Farther afield, Goose Creek State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and the Tar River is a river in a longer drive away. Rain is common through the year, with only a little snow in winter.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
What people in Pitt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pitt County had 81,398 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pitt County
- Pitt County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital6,093FTE
- East Carolina UniversityUniversity or college5,805
- Pitt County SchoolsSchool district2,948FTE
- Patheon Manufacturing ServicesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing2,237
- City of GreenvilleExecutive and legislative office combinations1,395
- Hyster-Yale Group Americas Headquarters - DivisionForklifts manufacturing982
- Pitt Community CollegeTwo-year college882
- Hyster-Yale Materials HandlingForklifts manufacturing628
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,895 people in all across the county; Stokes has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Stokes’ 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 Pitt County and the Greenville, NC metro.
Stokes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stokes$226,696
- 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.
Zip codes with a Stokes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stokes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.