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Home inspectors in the Goldsboro, NC metro area
How the Goldsboro, NC metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for home inspectors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 1 chain location (50%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $658.1M
- On rent and homeowner costs · $13,852 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 125
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.4
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 122,278
- +3.8% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 2 home inspectors in the Goldsboro metro area. That is 0.4 per 10,000 households.
Households in the Goldsboro metro area spend about $658.1M a year on rent and homeowner costs, or $13,852 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money home inspectors take in.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in the Goldsboro metro area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates put the population change in the Goldsboro metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +3.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 home inspectors on map listings, the Goldsboro metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Goldsboro metro area compares
The same measures for North Carolina and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.
| Measure | Goldsboro metro area | North Carolina | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 125 | 102 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 14,133 | 17,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +13.5% | +6.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.8% | +7.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $13,852 | $15,139 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $59,733 | $72,388 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 21 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as building inspection services in the Goldsboro metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Goldsboro metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 122,278+3.8% since 2020
- Households
- 47,507
- Median age
- 38.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 61%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 554 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 214
- Median household income
- $59,733+34.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $79,980
- Median home value
- $178,700
- Jobs located here
- 40,987
- Daytime population
- 111,023Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every North Carolina market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in North Carolina for home inspectors, numbered among those based in North Carolina (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Goldsboro metro area marked.
Top metro areas in North Carolina
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Durham-Chapel Hill, NC | 79 | 6 | 0.2 | 257 | +7.5% | #6 of 243 |
| 2Winston-Salem, NC | 71 | 11 | 0.4 | 141 | +5.3% | #25 of 243 |
| 3Greensboro-High Point, NC | 58 | 13 | 0.4 | 134 | +4.1% | #72 of 243 |
| Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC | 56 | 44 | 0.6 | 97 | +0.9% | #84 of 243 |
| 4Raleigh-Cary, NC | 56 | 43 | 0.7 | 88 | +12.6% | #86 of 243 |
| 5Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 53 | 78 | 0.7 | 85 | +10.1% | #111 of 243 |
| 6Jacksonville, NC | 48 | 5 | 0.7 | 82 | +6.0% | #136 of 243 |
| 7Wilmington, NC | 43 | 18 | 0.9 | 65 | +15.9% | #160 of 243 |
| 8Fayetteville, NC | 36 | 12 | 0.8 | 66 | +1.6% | #184 of 243 |
| 9Asheville, NC | 29 | 16 | 1.0 | 58 | +3.6% | #220 of 243 |
| Goldsboro, NC | Not scored | 2 | 0.4 | 125 | +3.8% |
Other business types in the Goldsboro metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
- Real estate63
- Real estate agents and brokers67
- Property management51
- Mortgage brokers and lenders52
- Home inspectors
Funeral services
Questions
How many home inspectors are in the Goldsboro, NC metro area?
The Goldsboro metro area has 2 home inspectors on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count home inspectors. No official count is published for building inspection services in the Goldsboro metro area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Goldsboro, NC metro area spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $658.1M a year, or $13,852 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money home inspectors take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 47,507 households in the Goldsboro metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Goldsboro, NC metro area compare with the U.S. for home inspectors?
The Goldsboro metro area has 2 home inspectors on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of home inspectors to household spending, the Goldsboro metro area would have about 3, against 2 on map listings.
How fast is the Goldsboro, NC metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Goldsboro metro area at 122,278 people in 2025, up 3.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 47,507 households. Median household income in the Goldsboro metro area is $59,733, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 34.5%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Goldsboro metro area has no market score for home inspectors: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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