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Lake Gaston on a clear morning, open blue water beside a wooded point of pines with red clay along the shoreline

Jackson & Northampton County, NC

Buying or selling in Northampton County?

The north shore of Lake Gaston, a historic courthouse square in Jackson, the last exit on I-95 before Virginia, and some of the deepest rural land value left in northeastern North Carolina.

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Before You Search Any Further

It's Northampton — one word, no capital H.

Is it Northampton or "Northhampton"?

Northampton — one word, no capital H. "Northhampton" and "North Hampton" are both common misspellings (Travis has typed the extra-H version himself). If you searched one of those and found little, that's likely why. This site also isn't about Northampton, Massachusetts or Northampton County, Pennsylvania or Virginia — three real, different places that share the name.

Do you cover Lake Gaston, or just the town side of the county?

Both. Northampton holds the north shore of Lake Gaston (Halifax County holds the south shore along the same stretch) — that's Chapter 1. The rest of the brief covers the county's towns, the I-95/Virginia-line corridor, and the land and farm market away from the water.

Where do people in Northampton County actually work and shop?

Mostly outside the county. There is no hospital here — the nearest is ECU Health North Hospital in Roanoke Rapids, about 18 miles from Jackson. Day-to-day retail and groceries generally route through Roanoke Rapids or across the state line to Emporia, Virginia. This is genuinely rural county living, and this brief says so directly rather than glossing over it.

Northampton County in a minute

The county behind the brief.

Population
~17,5002020 census
County seat
JacksonNRHP historic district
The lake
Lake Gastonnorth shore — Henrico
The interstate
I-95 Exit 180Garysburg · last exit in NC
Formed
1741from Bertie County
Nearest hospital
ECU Health NorthRoanoke Rapids, ~18 mi
The Greek Revival Northampton County Courthouse on the square in Jackson, North Carolina

Meherrin and Tuscarora homelands, a county carved out of Bertie in 1741, a courthouse square listed on the National Register twice over, the small railroad towns that grew up instead of one big city, a Civil War skirmish that saved the Weldon railroad bridge, and a 20,000-acre lake that didn't exist before 1963 — how this stretch of the NC-Virginia line built the county buyers see today.

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We deliberately don't publish a single blended countywide median price, and we never will publish a month-over-month median for this county — sample sizes here run in the single digits some months, and a single-digit median swings wildly and misleads more than it informs.

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Travis Old

Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate

Travis works the 19 counties of northeastern North Carolina that make up his territory, Halifax and Northampton counties included. Northampton is the fleet's north-shore market: Lake Gaston on one side, deep-rural land and a Virginia-border commute on the other, all priced well under what the same water and acreage cost closer to a metro area. This brief is written with that reality in mind: the real trade-offs, not a brochure.

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

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