Wade, North Carolina.
Typical home $297,108 (+5.1% in a year). Fayetteville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$883 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,515 +5%
- $282,593$297,108 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,867 +36%
- $218,240$297,108 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.
- Wade$1,559
- 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 Wade, NC rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wade, Cumberland County, North Carolina
Wade is a town of 638 people in Cumberland County. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cumberland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wade is a very small town in Cumberland County, North Carolina, with far fewer people than most places. Homes here are valued well above what incomes across the county would suggest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other towns. Winters are cool and short, with January days that stay mild and nights that dip to around freezing, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Cumberland County, some of the largest workplaces are Cumberland County Schools, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Carvers Creek State Park, a protected area, and the Little River are both a short drive away, and Averasboro Battlefield and Museum is also close by for anyone interested in the Civil War. For a longer drive, the Airborne & Special Operations Museum is one of the better-known museums in the area.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%work from home
What people in Cumberland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 122,272 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville (pwc) weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cumberland County
- Cumberland County SchoolsSchool district6,508FTE
- Cape Fear Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,804FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,451
- County of CumberlandExecutive and legislative office combinations2,165
- The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company - FayettevilleTire manufacture2,006
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,426
- Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeTwo-year college1,315
- City of FayettevilleFire departments)1,149
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,085 people in all across the county; Wade has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wade’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 Cumberland County and the Fayetteville, NC metro.
Wade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wade$297,108
- 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.
- Wade12
Zip codes with a Wade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.