Wentworth, North Carolina.
Typical home $226,929 (+4.4% in a year). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,569 +4%
- $217,360$226,929 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,061 +20%
- $188,868$226,929 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.
- Wentworth$1,191
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Wentworth, NC rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wentworth, Rockingham County, North Carolina
Wentworth is a town of 2,662 people in Rockingham County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wentworth is a small town and the seat of Rockingham County, in the north of North Carolina. Almost everyone here owns the home they live in, far more than is usual across the country, and homes are priced a good deal below what is typical nationally. Winters are cold but short, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Rockingham County Government is the largest workplace in town. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the country, and most people drive a fair way to work, with very few working from home. Across the county, jobs have fallen a little over the past year and unemployment is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Smith River and Matrimony Creek are both a short drive away and good for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Hanging Rock State Park and Mayo River State Park, both protected areas with trails and scenery. Martinsville Speedway, a well-known race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,066households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 23,947 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 7 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reidsville Northwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wentworth
- Rockingham County Government266
- Rockingham County Government210
- Rockingham County Government86
- Rockingham County Government33
- Rockingham County Government24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 619 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wentworth’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 Rockingham County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Wentworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wentworth$226,929
- 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.
- Wentworth8
Zip codes with a Wentworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wentworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.