Vandemere, North Carolina.
Typical home $179,308 (+16.6% in a year). New Bern, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$583 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,532 +17%
- $153,777$179,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,824 +37%
- $130,485$179,308 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.
- Vandemere$941
- 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 Vandemere, NC rose 16.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vandemere, Pamlico County, North Carolina
Vandemere is a town of 246 people in Pamlico County. Unemployment in Pamlico County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 10.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pamlico County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vandemere is a very small town on the water in Pamlico County, in eastern North Carolina, and life here is quiet and close-knit. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and across the county household incomes sit a little below what is typical nationally. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Pamlico County, the largest workplaces include Leggett & Platt, Pamlico County Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Pamlico River is the best known of the nearby places, a river a longer drive away that suits time on the water. Also a longer drive away is Croatan National Forest, a large protected area for walking and wildlife. For an indoor outing, the Aurora Fossil Museum is a museum, likewise a longer drive away.
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What people in Pamlico County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pamlico County had 4,072 jobs in 2025, 10.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bayboro Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pamlico County
- Leggett & PlattPrecision turned product manufacturing220
- Pamlico County SchoolsSchool district206FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters160
- Pamlico Community CollegeTwo-year college117
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores98
- Arapahoe Charter SchoolSchool district69FTE
- Principle LTCNursing homes52
- Food LionGrocery stores51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 605 people in all across the county; Vandemere has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vandemere’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 Pamlico County and the New Bern, NC metro.
Vandemere home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vandemere$179,308
- 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 Vandemere address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vandemere — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.