Whitakers, North Carolina.
Typical home $171,996 (+3.2% in a year). Rocky Mount, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$528 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,268 +3%
- $166,728$171,996 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,213 +32%
- $130,783$171,996 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.
- Whitakers$903
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Whitakers, NC rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitakers, Nash County, North Carolina
Whitakers is a town of 627 people in Nash County. Unemployment in Nash County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nash County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitakers is a very small town in Nash County, North Carolina, where people tend to know their neighbors. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across much of the country, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are cool and brief, with highs near the middle of the range for a Southern town, while summers turn properly hot, and snow is a rare event.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Nash County, some of the largest workplaces are the Cummins-Rocky Mount Engine Plant, Nash County Public Schools and Nash Hospitals. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area and Lake Gaston is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away is Warren County Fire Tower, a tourist attraction, and Imagination Station Science Museum, a museum that suits an outing with grandchildren.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Nash County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nash County had 40,231 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 3 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Mount Ese weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nash County
- Cummins-Rocky Mount Engine PlantEngines, natural gas, manufacturing1,924
- Nash County Public SchoolsSchool district1,817FTE
- Nash HospitalsGeneral hospital1,602FTE
- Barnhill Contracting CompanyOverpass construction1,012
- EdwardsHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors625
- First Carolina ManagementHotel management services497
- HoneywellAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing428
- Nash Community CollegeTwo-year college424
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 96 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,006 people in all across the county; Whitakers has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 weatherVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of WhitakersRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whitakers’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Nash County and the Rocky Mount, NC metro.
Whitakers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitakers$171,996
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Whitakers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitakers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.