Thomasville, North Carolina.
Typical home $235,165 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,314 (+3.6%). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,602 +2%
- $230,564$235,165 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,368 +30%
- $180,797$235,165 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.
- Thomasville$1,234
- 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 Thomasville, NC rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Thomasville, NC rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Thomasville runs $290/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $362 in May 2024.
That is $1,604 a month against $1,314 rent: a $1,234 mortgage payment, plus $118 property tax and $252 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Thomasville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,604
- Renting$1,314
- Mortgage only$1,234
Property tax · $118/mo 0.60% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Davidson County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $252/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina
Thomasville is a city of 27,183 people in Davidson County. Half its households earn more than $60,935 a year and half less, against $64,172 across Davidson County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Thomasville was 3.6% in August 2026, and Davidson County had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Thomasville is a city in Davidson County, in the North Carolina Piedmont. Its residents are a little younger than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though fewer than you would find in many nearby communities. Incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool with only a dusting of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops and transport and warehousing. Among the biggest workplaces in Thomasville are Mohawk Industries, Thomasville Medical Center and Thomasville City Schools. Most people get to work in a short commute, and unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, although the county as a whole has lost a small number of jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, Truist Point is a stadium and the Richard Childress Racing Museum is a museum. Farther afield, the North Carolina Zoo is a longer drive away, as is High Rock Lake, a reservoir. Old Salem, a museum, is another longer drive.
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- 11,252households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davidson County had 46,241 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the High Pt weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thomasville
- Mohawk IndustriesEngineered wood784
- Thomasville Medical CenterGeneral hospital693FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- Thomasville City SchoolsSchool district270FTE
- PPG IndustriesCustom compounding of purchased resins255
- Mohawk Industries: ThomasvillePrivate warehousing and storage, general merchandise199
- NordfabDucts, sheet metal, manufacturing179
- Magnolia Gardens Center for Nursing and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,076 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ThomasvilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of ThomasvilleRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of ThomasvilleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thomasville’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 Davidson County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Thomasville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thomasville$235,165
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Thomasville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Thomasville39.14%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Thomasville26
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thomasville159
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Thomasville44
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Thomasville$239,600
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Thomasville97.44%
Zip codes with a Thomasville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thomasville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.