A typical Mount Gilead home is worth about $216,000
Up 6.2% in a year, 36% below the North Carolina typical home.
What kind of housing town is Mount Gilead?
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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 Mount Gilead home, with $19K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $280 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Mount Gilead’s typical property tax (0.74% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 32.9% in five years
Faster than North Carolina (23.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Mount Gilead | North Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $100,000 | $179,000 |
| 2018 | $107,000 | $190,000 |
| 2019 | $113,000 | $203,000 |
| 2020 | $119,000 | $215,000 |
| 2021 | $145,000 | $242,000 |
| 2022 | $169,000 | $287,000 |
| 2023 | $186,000 | $320,000 |
| 2024 | $197,000 | $332,000 |
| 2025 | $201,000 | $338,000 |
| 2026 | $210,000 | $336,000 |
| August 2026 | $216,000 | $335,000 |
A typical Mount Gilead home worth $99K in September 2016 is worth about $216K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980
Renters already here pay a median of $1,061.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Montgomery County, NC): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
61% of Mount Gilead households own their home
Half of Mount Gilead’s homes were built before 1970.
North Carolina: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. 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.