ActiveHunt Land
+39 photos$975,000
0 ba·200.00 ac
3277 Hodges Road, Scranton, NC 27875
Swan Quarter & Hyde County, NC · 2026
The Hyde County Buyer's Brief
A straight read for buyers. Lake Mattamuskeet — North Carolina's largest natural lake and one of the Atlantic Flyway's premier waterfowl destinations — anchors a mainland county of roughly 4,600 people, working fishing villages, and some of the state's most affordable big-sky hunt land. One brief. Eight chapters. No glossing, especially on the insurance math.
- chapters, one brief
- 8
- county population
- ~4,600
- water, by county area
- 58%
- USDA-eligible (likely)
- Most of the county
One Brief · Three Ways In
Start with the chapter that fits you.
Hyde County isn't three markets the way a bigger county might be — it's one brief, eight chapters, written for the buyers who actually show up here. In twenty years working Northeast North Carolina, nearly every serious Hyde County buyer has been one of three people. Find yours.
The Hunter & Land Investor
Buying ground near the lake — maybe buying revenue too
You hunt waterfowl seriously, or you're evaluating hunt-land as an investment with lease income attached. Lake Mattamuskeet and the refuge system are the reason to look here at all — impoundments, blind leases, and the drainage history of the ground itself decide whether a specific parcel actually works.
The Homesteader & Extreme-Quiet Retiree
Buying distance, and the quiet that comes with it
You want self-sufficiency and the absence of neighbors — a village home or acreage with real room. Hyde County can deliver a depth of quiet almost nowhere else on the East Coast still offers. It will also test whether you actually want it, starting with the drive to a hospital.
The Lodge & Hospitality Buyer
Buying a small business that happens to include real estate
You're looking at a lodge, a guide operation, or a property you intend to run as one. This is the fleet's only brief that treats recreational hunting revenue as a real underwriting question — and financing a mixed residence-plus-revenue property is a different conversation than a standard home purchase.
County Profile
The county behind the brief.
Hyde is one of North Carolina's smallest and most water-covered counties — roughly 4,600 people across 1,459 square miles, more than half of it open water, sound, and marsh. That's a different kind of market than anywhere else in this brokerage's territory: no incorporated town of real size, a working hunt-and-fishing economy, and a national-tier wildlife refuge as the county's defining feature.
- Land area
- 612 sq mi land 1,459 sq mi total, 58% water
- Population
- ~4,589 2020 census
- Defining feature
- Lake Mattamuskeet NC's largest natural lake
- USDA eligibility
- Likely county-wide confirm your address
- County seat
- Swan Quarter ferry terminal to Ocracoke
- NC economic tier
- Tier 1 2026, most distressed
Market Data
Current Hyde County market activity.
Mainland Hyde County inventory is thin and moves in its own rhythm — village homes and hunt-land parcels, not a suburban subdivision cadence. This report shows what's actually on the market rather than manufacturing a countywide average that doesn't mean much.
Live MLS data for Hyde County, refreshed on every site build — see the report for the current feed status.
The broker
Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis works Northeast North Carolina — Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Chowan, Bertie, Martin, and Pitt counties among others — and now Hyde County too. Hyde is a different kind of market than any of them: smaller, wetter, and organized around a hunt economy rather than a town or a university. This brief is written with that difference in mind, not adapted from a bigger county's template.
Serving
Credential
2026William C. Bass Leadership Academy — appointed member
Education
2018University of North Carolina at Greensboro — BA in Economics
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