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Housing in Gold Hill

A typical Gold Hill home is worth about $344,000

Up 4.4% in a year, close to the North Carolina typical home.

Typical home value
$344K
▲ 4.4% in a year · NC $335K
Zillow
Median sale price
$465K
May 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
1
in May
2-bedroom rent
$1,160
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,796
NC $1,896

Only 1 sale in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Gold Hill?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The homes

92% of Gold Hill households own their home

Half of Gold Hill’s homes were built before 1993.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 8%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1993
typical home built · NC 1991
$1,796
median property tax bill · NC $1,896
0.64%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · NC 0.66%

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

Price trend

Up 23.6% in five years

About the same pace as North Carolina (23.2%).

Gold HillNorth Carolina
$150K$200K$250K$300K$350K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryGold HillNorth Carolina
2017$179,000$179,000
2018$190,000$190,000
2019$197,000$203,000
2020$216,000$215,000
2021$248,000$242,000
2022$283,000$287,000
2023$307,000$320,000
2024$319,000$332,000
2025$334,000$338,000
2026$337,000$336,000
August 2026$344,000$335,000
Then & now

A typical Gold Hill home worth $177K in September 2016 is worth about $344K today.

+$167K
+4.4%
past year
+23.6%
past 5 years
+94.5%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Affordability

A typical home costs 4.7 years of income

About the same as across North Carolina. Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$295,000
Typical Gold Hill home $344K

That’s $50K short of a typical Gold Hill home.

The typical home, each month
$1,990
Loan $1,700Tax $180Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,160 a month here, $830 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Gold Hill’s typical property tax (0.64% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,160

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$900
1 bedroom$940
2 bedrooms$1,160
3 bedrooms$1,540
4 bedrooms$1,870
8%
of households rent · NC 33%
22
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 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.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. 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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