Vass, North Carolina.
Typical home $368,336 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $2,092 . Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,130 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,907 +2%
- $361,429$368,336 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,010 +32%
- $278,326$368,336 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.
- Vass$1,933
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Vass, NC rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vass, Moore County, North Carolina
Vass is a town of 952 people in Moore County. Unemployment in Moore County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Moore County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vass is a small town in Moore County, North Carolina, with a young population: the typical resident is noticeably younger than in most of the country. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, though the typical home here is priced well above what many towns of this size ask, and rents are high for a place so small. Winters are mild and short, with only a dusting of snow, while summers turn hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Moore County, some of the largest workplaces are FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, Moore County Schools and Pinehurst. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens is a botanical garden, and McArthur Lake is a reservoir for time near the water. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, also a short drive off, is listed as a museum and makes a quiet outing. For a longer drive, Raven Rock State Park is a protected area of woods and river.
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- 29%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Moore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moore County had 42,751 jobs in 2025, 6.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage Wtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moore County
- Firsthealth Moore Regional HospitalGeneral hospital3,160FTE
- Moore County SchoolsSchool district1,613FTE
- PinehurstResort hotels without casinos1,508
- Lee Electrical ConstructionElectrical contractors1,046
- County of Moore Local GovernmentGeneral services departments, government919
- Sandhills Community CollegeTwo-year college657
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- Penick VillageSkilled nursing facilities258
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,065 people in all across the county; Vass has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vass’ census tracts, 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 Moore County and the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
Vass home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vass$368,336
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Vass 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.
- Vass31.47%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vass51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vass12
Zip codes with a Vass address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vass — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.