Washington, North Carolina.
Typical home $242,936 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,285 . Washington, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$762 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,446 +1%
- $239,489$242,936 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,504 +37%
- $177,431$242,936 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.
- Washington$1,275
- 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 Washington, NC rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina
Washington is a city of 9,875 people in Beaufort County. Half its households earn more than $40,186 a year and half less, against $58,357 across Beaufort County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Beaufort County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washington is a small city on the Tar River, where the water runs through town and shapes a good deal of daily life. Incomes here run below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect in a place this size, so renting is common. Winters are mild and short, with almost no snow, and summers are hot and wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking, insurance and property, and retail close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are ECU Health Beaufort Hospital, AAF Flanders FFI and Seolta Holdings. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and only a few work from home.
Things to do. The Tar River itself is in or beside town, and Goose Creek State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, and the Aurora Fossil Museum is a longer drive away as well.
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- 4,709households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beaufort County had 16,255 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Wwtp 4W weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington
- ECU Health Beaufort HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical632
- AAF Flanders FFIAir purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing259
- Seolta HoldingsBoat yards162
- ITW MedicalIv apparatus manufacturing155
- Ridgewood HealthcareNursing homes130
- Gregory Poole Equipment Company- WashingtonHeavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services91
- Food LionGrocery stores90
- STE Hackney Inc. - Corporate OfficeTruck trailer manufacturing68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,990 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Beaufort County and the Washington, NC metro.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$242,936
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Washington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — 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.
- Washington31.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Washington109
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Washington26
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.