White Lake, North Carolina.
Typical home $225,768 (+0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$576 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $564 +0%
- $225,204$225,768 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,903 +15%
- $195,865$225,768 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.
- White Lake$1,185
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in White Lake, NC rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White Lake, Bladen County, North Carolina
White Lake is a town of 843 people in Bladen County. Half its households earn more than $84,375 a year and half less, against $42,422 across Bladen County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Bladen County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 6.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Lake is a very small town in Bladen County, with fewer residents than most towns that appear on maps. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Winters are mild and rarely harsh, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, manufacturing and the building trades, and a fair number work from home. Across Bladen County, the largest workplaces include Bladen County Schools, the industrial controls maker Dynapar, and Smithfield Foods, which runs cold storage warehousing. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Singletary Lake State Park and Jones Lake State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, and Singletary Lake itself is close by for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Waccamaw State Park, a protected area built around another lake, and to Moores Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site with a place in early American history.
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- 407households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bladen County had 12,522 jobs in 2025, 6.9% 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 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabethtown weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bladen County
- Bladen County SchoolsSchool district552FTE
- DynaparTime cycle and program controllers, industrial process-type, manufacturing336
- The Chemours Company FC, LLC - FayettevilleFluorocarbon gases manufacturing294
- Smithfield FoodsCold storage warehousing260
- Fortrex - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar HeelJanitorial services211
- CR EnglandGeneral freight trucking long-distance truckload201
- Bladen Community CollegeTwo-year college187
- Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 71)Yarn spinning mills161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,780 people in all across the county; White Lake has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 White Lake’s 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 Bladen County.
White Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Lake$225,768
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 White Lake 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- White Lake18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a White Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Lake — 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.