Wadesboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $129,926 (-2.8% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$382 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,699 -3%
- $133,625$129,926 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,821 +17%
- $111,105$129,926 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.
- Wadesboro$682
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Wadesboro, NC fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina
Wadesboro is a town of 5,008 people in Anson County. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Anson County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wadesboro is a small town in Anson County, North Carolina, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit modestly. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is common across the country, and a larger share of residents than many places live below the poverty line. Household incomes across Anson County are on the lower side. Winters are cool and mostly mild, with snow a rare event, while summers are hot, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Wadesboro are Anson County Schools, Columbus Mckinnon Corporation Wadesboro, which makes overhead traveling cranes, and Atrium Health Anson, a general hospital. Unemployment across Anson County has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs. Commutes are on the long side, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for watching wildlife and spending time outdoors. Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, and Lake Tillery, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away. Rockingham Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive.
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- 1,996households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anson County had 6,666 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wadesboro weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wadesboro
- Anson County SchoolsSchool district500FTE
- Columbus Mckinnon Corporation WadesboroCranes, overhead traveling, manufacturing180
- Atrium Health AnsonGeneral hospital136FTE
- Anson Health and RehabilitationNursing homes111
- Food LionGrocery stores96
- Saber Health CareSkilled nursing facilities74
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores28
- JJ Haines and CompanyHomefurnishings merchant wholesalers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 678 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wadesboro’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 Anson County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Wadesboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wadesboro$129,926
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Wadesboro 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.
- Wadesboro21.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wadesboro47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wadesboro11
Zip codes with a Wadesboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wadesboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.