Williamston, North Carolina.
Typical home $133,711 (+4.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$367 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,179 +5%
- $127,532$133,711 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,247 +8%
- $123,464$133,711 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.
- Williamston$702
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Williamston, NC rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina
Williamston is a town of 5,248 people in Martin County. Half its households earn more than $38,738 a year and half less, against $48,578 across Martin County; 36% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Martin County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Martin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamston is a small town in Martin County, North Carolina, where owners and renters live in roughly equal numbers. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the state. Typical home values are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. The largest workplaces in town include Martin County Schools, Walmart and The Carrolton of Williamston. Unemployment across Martin County is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did, and a typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. The Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area along the river, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off are Fort Branch, a fort, and the Fort Branch Site, an archaeological site. For a longer outing, Goose Creek State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 2,364households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 36%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Martin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 6,126 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 71°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamston East weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williamston
- Martin County SchoolsSchool district423FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters241
- The Carrolton of WilliamstonNursing homes83
- A. R. Chesson Construction CoOffice building construction49
- UAC AcquisitionsPoultry catching services43
- Martin General HospitalGeneral hospital39FTE
- Williamston HouseAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities34
- Lilley International - WilliamstonAutomobile merchant wholesalers32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 533 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamston’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 Martin County.
Williamston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamston$133,711
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Williamston listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Williamston25.82%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamston48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williamston11
Zip codes with a Williamston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Williamston
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27892 | Williamston | 13,262 | — | $132,931 |
| 27983 | Windsor | 8,007 | — | $64,533 |
| 27871 | Robersonville | 3,471 | — | $116,183 |