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Roanoke Rapids & Halifax County, NC
Buying or selling in Halifax County?
A straight read for buyers: the I-95 county — Roanoke Rapids' full-service small city, Lake Gaston's year-round waterfront, Weldon's river economy, and the birthplace of the Halifax Resolves — all roughly an hour and a half from both Richmond and Raleigh.
The Brief · Nine Chapters
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The Halifax County Buyer's Brief
For the Lake Gaston, Roanoke Rapids and rental-investor buyer
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Halifax County in a minute
The county behind the brief.
- Population
- 48,6222020 census
- Land area
- ~724 sq micoastal plain, on the fall line
- Largest town
- Roanoke Rapids15,229 (2020) · ECU Health North
- County seat
- HalifaxHalifax Resolves, April 12, 1776
- Water
- Lake Gaston & Roanoke Riverlake shoreline shared with 2 other NC counties
- School systems
- Threecounty, Roanoke Rapids & Weldon districts
A fall line, a colonial river port, the first colony-wide call for independence, a canal, the world's longest railroad at its opening, cotton mills, a New Deal experiment in Black land ownership, and a hydroelectric lake — how three centuries at one bend in the Roanoke River built the county buyers see today.
Read the full history →We deliberately don't publish a single blended countywide median price. Halifax County spans a Lake Gaston waterfront market, an I-95 corridor town market anchored by Roanoke Rapids, and a deep-value agricultural south county — and those three sub-markets behave differently enough that one average would mislead more than it informs.
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Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis works buyer-side across eastern North Carolina; this is the westernmost county in a family of county guides he writes and maintains. Halifax County is a different kind of market than the coastal counties: an interstate corridor, a hydropower lake with a county line running through it, and some of the deepest home values in the region. This brief is written with those differences in mind, not around them.
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