Union Grove, North Carolina.
Typical home $366,612 (+8.8% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,188 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,616 +9%
- $336,996$366,612 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,683 +36%
- $269,929$366,612 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.
- Union Grove$1,924
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Union Grove, NC rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union Grove, Iredell County, North Carolina
Union Grove is a township of 2,128 people in Iredell County. Unemployment in Iredell County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iredell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union Grove is a small township in Iredell County, North Carolina, with a population that is middle-aged on the whole. Incomes in the county run comfortable, and few residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values sit fairly high, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with only a little snow, and summers turn quite warm; rain and melted snow fall in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also well represented. Across Iredell County, the largest workplaces include Iredell-Statesville Schools, Iredell Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The closest-known draws are all a longer drive away. North Wilkesboro Speedway is a race track, and Moravian Falls is a waterfall. Lake Norman State Park is a protected area for those who want a day outdoors.
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- 837households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Iredell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iredell County had 81,030 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 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 5 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Statesville Nne weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iredell County
- Iredell-Statesville SchoolsSchool district2,477FTE
- Iredell Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,260FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse817
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage765
- Mooresville Graded School DistrictSchool district762FTE
- City of StatesvilleGeneral public administration678
- Cheney Brothers Statesville671
- DENSO Manufacturing North CarolinaAir-conditioners, motor vehicle, manufacturing650
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 194 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 24,242 people in all across the county; Union Grove has none of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Iredell 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 Iredell County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Union Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union Grove$366,612
- 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.
- Union Grove6
Zip codes with a Union Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.