A typical Brunswick home is worth roughly $83,000
Home prices around Brunswick have risen about 49% over the past 5 years. No new homes were permitted in 2009.
What kind of housing town is Brunswick?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3.7 years of income
Less than across North Carolina (4.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Brunswick home, with $1K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $940 a month here, $410 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Brunswick’s typical property tax (1.44% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 49% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Brunswick rose 49% over the past 5 years, slower than across North Carolina (60%). Last year prices rose 18%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Brunswick, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $940
Renters already here pay a median of $789, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Columbus County, NC): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2009
No permits for new homes were issued in Brunswick in 2009. The last year with any was 2007 (32 new homes).
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 32 | 0 | 32 | $1.5 million |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $70,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $68,000 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $272,000 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $348,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $63,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Brunswick's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2009, so the 2009 figures are Census estimates.
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
40% of Brunswick households own their home
Half of Brunswick’s homes were built before 1976.
North Carolina: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Brunswick buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.