Todd, North Carolina.
Typical home $458,603 (-0.4% in a year). Boone, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,363 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,651 -0%
- $460,254$458,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,853 +22%
- $375,750$458,603 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.
- Todd$2,407
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Todd, NC fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Todd, Ashe County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Todd on its own, so the figures here are Ashe County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,866 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Ashe County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashe County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Todd is a small town in Ashe County, in the mountains of northwest North Carolina. Across the county, more homes are lived in by their owners than by renters, and the typical resident is older than most people in the country. Incomes are lower than the national average, and winters are colder and snowier than in most of the country, while summers are mild and the rain is plentiful.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, or the building trades. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs grew only slightly. Few people work from home, so most travel to a workplace, and the typical drive is shorter than in many larger areas.
Things to do. Elk Knob State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and it is a good choice for walks and quiet time outdoors. Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge, also a protected area and a short drive away, offers a different kind of landscape to explore. Kidd Brewer Stadium, a short drive away, is a stadium for those who enjoy watching local events.
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- 12,201households
- 49.8median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Ashe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashe County had 7,503 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 26 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boone Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashe County
- American Emergency VehiclesAmbulance manufacturing474
- Ashe County SchoolsSchool district425FTE
- GE Aerospace317
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters252
- Ashe Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital246FTE
- County of AsheLaw enforcement statistics centers, government200
- Skyline Telephone MembershipTelecommunications carriers, wired159
- United Chemi-ConCapacitors, electronic, fixed and variable, manufacturing147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,996 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ashe County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Ashe County and the Boone, NC metro.
Todd home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Todd$458,603
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Todd 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.
- Todd25.23%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Todd40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Todd12
Zip codes with a Todd address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Todd — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.