Traphill, North Carolina.
Typical home $186,631 (+6.3% in a year). North Wilkesboro, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$114 (+13%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,119 +6%
- $175,512$186,631 since Sep 2025
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.
- Traphill$980
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Traphill, NC rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Traphill, Wilkes County, North Carolina
Traphill is a township of 3,028 people in Wilkes County. Half its households earn more than $43,929 a year and half less, against $51,721 across Wilkes County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Wilkes County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Traphill is a small township in Wilkes County, North Carolina, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Wilkes County, the largest workplaces include Wilkes County Schools, Tyson Farms and Wilkes Community College. Commutes tend to be long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Stone Mountain State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Lake Louise. For a longer drive, North Wilkesboro Speedway is a race track, and Moravian Falls is a waterfall. Winters are cold with a little snow, summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
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- 1,304households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wilkes County had 18,897 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 3 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elkin weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilkes County
- Wilkes County SchoolsSchool district1,218FTE
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,159
- Wilkes Community CollegeTwo-year college693
- Wrmc Hospital OperatingGeneral hospital539FTE
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing324
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- EcmdHome centers, building materials279
- Jeld-WenWood window and door manufacturing196
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,649 people in all across the county; Traphill has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wilkes County, 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 Wilkes County and the North Wilkesboro, NC metro.
Traphill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Traphill$186,631
- 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.
- Traphill12
Zip codes with a Traphill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Traphill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.