Willard, North Carolina.
Typical home $225,179 (+5.1% in a year). Wilmington, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$106 (+10%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,892 +5%
- $214,287$225,179 since Sep 2025
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.
- Willard$1,182
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Willard, NC rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willard, Pender County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Willard on its own, so the figures here are Pender County's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,396 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Pender County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 9.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pender County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willard is a town in Pender County, North Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and poverty touches only a minority of households. Typical home values are in the mid-range for the region, and the county's median age places it among the middle-aged communities of the South.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, and building trades and professional and business services also employ people across the county. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown noticeably in the latest year on record. Most residents commute to a workplace outside the home rather than working from home.
Things to do. Moores Creek National Battlefield, one of the best known sites in the area, is an archaeological site a longer drive away. Singletary Lake State Park, a protected area, and Lea-Hutaff Island, a beach, are also a longer drive away, and the Cape Fear Museum offers a place to learn about the region's history. Winters are mild with little snow, while summers are hot and rain falls often.
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- 25,291households
- 41.6median age
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Pender County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pender County had 16,071 jobs in 2025, 9.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willard Southwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pender County
- Pender County SchoolsSchool district1,188FTE
- Pender County GovernmentPersonnel offices, government641
- GAFRoofing, sheet metal, manufacturing240
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores169
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters167
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter163
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores147
- Pender Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital119FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,034 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pender County, 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 Pender County and the Wilmington, NC metro.
Willard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willard$225,179
- 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.
- Willard9
Zip codes with a Willard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.