

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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How this list is built: active Hive MLS listings with property type Land, under 3 acres, that the listing agent filed as Residential Lot, Residential Land or Mobile Home Lot. Lots whose zoning reads commercial (for example business, industrial or mixed use) are left out. Zoning on the MLS is typed by the listing agent and can be wrong or out of date. Whether a lot can be built on, and for what, must be confirmed: zoning, septic or sewer, permits, flood zone, setbacks, covenants and HOA rules. A lot appearing on this website does not remove the buyer's responsibility to confirm its permitted use before purchase.
How this list is built: active Hive MLS listings with property type Land and 3 acres or more, any zoning. Whether a parcel can be built on or used as you intend must be confirmed: zoning, septic, permits, flood zone, wetlands, easements and covenants. A parcel appearing on this website does not remove the buyer's responsibility to confirm its permitted use before purchase.
How this list is built: active Hive MLS listings with property type Land and 5 acres or more where the listing agent marked the current or possible use as hunting, recreational or timber, filed it as wooded or recreation land, or mentions hunting in the description. The MLS has no hunting category, so this list depends on what each agent entered. Hunting rights, leases, easements, access, wetlands and local hunting rules must be confirmed. A parcel appearing on this website does not remove the buyer's responsibility to confirm its permitted use before purchase.
One Brief · Seven Chapters
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The Northampton County Buyer's Brief
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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.
Cross-shopping Lake Gaston? Halifax County holds the lake's south shore along this same stretch, with its own corridor and Roanoke Rapids content. Each county's brief stands on its own — confirm any specific parcel's county against NC OneMap before you rely on a general "north shore/south shore" description, including this one. If you meant this county, the whole brief starts at chapter one.
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

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.
Read the full history →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.
Hive MLS active for-sale listings in Northampton County, as of Oct 28, 2026. Check the live listings
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The broker
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.
Serving
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



























