State housing costs
North Carolina housing costs, ownership, and rent in the latest ACS
Statewide evidence on home value, income, owner costs, housing stock, tenure, vacancy, and rent for borrower planning.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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North Carolina's 2024 ACS housing baseline reports a median owner-occupied home value of $288,900, median household income of $72,388, and median selected monthly owner costs of $1,631 for owners with a mortgage. In practical terms, those three reference points may help a borrower identify which statewide value, income, and recurring-cost assumptions need local replacement first. They remain separate medians, not the price, income, and monthly budget of one typical household, and the $1,631 measure is not a real-estate-tax figure or a current mortgage quote. For the decision at hand, a real decision still needs local property evidence, borrower documentation, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, and current loan information.
For borrowers reviewing evidence from North Carolina, ACS vacancy includes categories beyond property currently offered for sale or rent, so 12.5% is not a live inventory rate and cannot measure competition for a selected home. Read beside the 66.6% owner share and 33.4% renter share, the vacancy figure helps describe how the broad stock was classified without predicting near-term supply. In practical terms, the borrower should use current listings, property condition, days on market, concessions, and local professional context to answer transaction questions that 12.5% and 4,895,668 were not designed to resolve.