Woodleaf, North Carolina.
Typical home $266,334 (+0.5% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,364 +1%
- $264,970$266,334 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,219 +20%
- $221,114$266,334 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.
- Woodleaf$1,398
- 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 Woodleaf, NC rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Woodleaf, Rowan County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Woodleaf on its own, so the figures here are Rowan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,725 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Rowan County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rowan County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Woodleaf is a small town in Rowan County, North Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit around the middle of what people pay in the area. Winters are cool, summers are hot, snow is light and rare, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, with others in shops and in professional and business services. Across Rowan County, jobs grew slightly last year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. A minority of adults hold a university degree, and only a small share of workers work from home.
Things to do. Fort Dobbs, a fort a longer drive away, is the best known place on the nearby list. Reynolda House Museum of American Art, a museum also a longer drive away, is another option. Closer by, the South Yadkin River, a river a short drive away, and Boone's Cave Park, a park a short drive away, offer places to spend time outdoors.
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- 58,899households
- 40.4median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Rowan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rowan County had 51,121 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mocksville 5SE weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rowan County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,470
- Rowan-Salisbury SchoolsSchool district2,210FTE
- Daimler Truck North America - Cleveland Truck PlantAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture1,988
- Food LionBusiness services1,947
- Rowan Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,039FTE
- Rowan-Cabarrus Community CollegeTwo-year college993
- ADUSA Dist DC 10 SalisburyGeneral warehousing and stora889
- ADUSA Services - Salisbury - Harrison RdBusiness services818
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,650 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rowan 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 Rowan County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Woodleaf home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Woodleaf$266,334
- 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 Woodleaf address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Woodleaf — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.