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Housing in Farmington

A typical Farmington home is worth roughly $206,000

Home prices around Farmington have risen about 57% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$206K
▲ 4.8% in a year · NC $335K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,060
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,260
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Farmington?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Farmington

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You could afford about
$290,000
Typical Farmington home $206K

That covers a typical Farmington home, with $84K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,190
Loan $1,020Tax $110Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060 a month here, $130 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the North Carolina typical property tax (0.66% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Home prices up 57% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Farmington rose 57% over the past 5 years, slower than across North Carolina (60%). Last year prices rose 4.8%.

Farmington areaNorth Carolina
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200020052010201520202025
+4.8%
past year
+57%
past 5 years
+91%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Farmington, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$860
1 bedroom$930
2 bedrooms$1,060
3 bedrooms$1,380
4 bedrooms$1,670
20%
of households rent · NC 33%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Iredell County, NC HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

80% of Farmington households own their home

Half of Farmington’s homes were built before 1966.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1966
typical home built · NC 1991
$1,260
median property tax bill · NC $1,896

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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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. 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.

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