ActiveUnder $150K
+18 photos$135,000
$120/sq ft
2 bd·2 ba·1,124 sq ft·0.22 ac
912 N Academy Street N, Ahoskie, NC 27910
Year Built: 1927
Ahoskie & Hertford County, NC
Buying or selling in Hertford County?
The Paycheck County — a steel mill on the Chowan River, a regional hospital hub in Ahoskie, a college town on the Meherrin, and some of the lowest entry prices in northeastern North Carolina.
One Brief · Nine Chapters
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The Places & the Paychecks
The mill, the hub, the college town, the river
Start at Chapter 1The Money
Paycheck math, rental math, financing stack
Read the financing guideThe Fine Print & the Decision
Schools, diligence, and pulling the trigger
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Before You Get Lost on a Map
Hertford County is not the town of Hertford.
Is this about the town of Hertford, NC?
No — and the distinction matters. The town of Hertford is the county seat of Perquimans County, about 45 minutes east of here. This site covers Hertford County, whose towns are Ahoskie, Murfreesboro, Winton (the county seat), Cofield, Harrellsville, and Como. If you searched "Hertford NC homes" looking for the waterfront town on the Perquimans River, you want Perquimans County — different county, different market. I cover that one too, at perquimanscountybuyersbrief.com, and its FAQ takes this same collision from the other side.
Where do people in Hertford County actually work?
The three anchors are Nucor Steel Hertford County — the plate mill near Cofield, operating since 2000 with more than 500 employees — ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie, and Chowan University in Murfreesboro, alongside the school district, county government, and farm economy. That employment base is unusual for a rural county this size, and it is the backbone of the housing demand this brief describes.
Why is housing here so much cheaper than the rest of North Carolina?
Thin demand relative to the state's metro counties, an older housing stock, and a rural location. That cuts both ways: entry prices are among the lowest in northeastern NC — which is why this site keeps a dedicated under-$150K page — but resale liquidity is thinner too, and condition and financeability (especially on manufactured homes) need real diligence. The brief covers both sides honestly.
Landed here looking for the town of Hertford — the one on the Perquimans River with the S-bridge? That's Perquimans County, and I cover it on its own site. The Perquimans County Buyer's Brief FAQ walks through this same name collision from the other side. No hard feelings; half the people who land on this section were looking for the other one. If you meant this county, the whole brief starts atchapter one.
Hertford County in a minute
The county behind the brief.
- Population
- ~21,5002020 census
- County seat
- Wintonon the Chowan River
- Largest town
- Ahoskie~4,900 · "The Only One"
- Anchor employer
- Nucor Steelplate mill · 500+ jobs
- Rivers
- Chowan & Meherrinplus the Wiccacon
- The college
- Chowan UniversityMurfreesboro · founded 1848
Hertford County sits in North Carolina's northeastern corner, bounded on its eastern edge by the Chowan River and cut through by the Meherrin and the Wiccacon. Long before there was a county, or an English name for any of it, this was a place organized around those same rivers — a fact that has never really stopped being true.
Read the full history →We deliberately don't publish a single blended countywide median price. In a market this size, a handful of sales can swing a blended median by tens of thousands of dollars in either direction.
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Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis works the counties of northeastern North Carolina, from Currituck and the coast across to Bertie, Martin, and Hertford County. Hertford County is the fleet's most blue-collar market: anchored by a steel mill instead of a university hospital system, priced for first-time buyers, and full of diligence traps that only show up at this price point. This brief is written with that reality in mind: paycheck math first, gloss never.
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Credentials
- 2026William C. Bass Leadership Academy, appointed member
- 2023Licensed North Carolina Real Estate Instructor
- 2017North Carolina General Contractor's License
Education
- 2018University of North Carolina at Greensboro, BA in Economics
- 2016College of the Albemarle at Elizabeth City, Associate Degree