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Housing in Pantego

A typical Pantego home is worth about $149,000

About the same as a year ago, 55% below the North Carolina typical home.

Typical home value
$149K
▲ 0.2% in a year · NC $335K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$736
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Pantego?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Pantego

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You could afford about
$290,000
Typical Pantego home $149K

That covers a typical Pantego home, with $141K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$860
Loan $740Tax $80Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $70 more 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

Up 19.8% in five years

Slower than North Carolina (23.2%).

PantegoNorth Carolina
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K$350K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryPantegoNorth Carolina
2017$79,000$179,000
2018$81,000$190,000
2019$85,000$203,000
2020$87,000$215,000
2021$110,000$242,000
2022$123,000$287,000
2023$138,000$320,000
2024$140,000$332,000
2025$156,000$338,000
2026$148,000$336,000
August 2026$149,000$335,000
Then & now

A typical Pantego home worth $80K in September 2016 is worth about $149K today.

+$70K
+0.2%
past year
+19.8%
past 5 years
+87.6%
since 2016

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

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $930

Renters already here pay a median of $840, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$730
1 bedroom$740
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,220
4 bedrooms$1,530
24%
of households rent · NC 33%
20
renter households
$840
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

76% of Pantego households own their home

Half of Pantego’s homes were built before 1962.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 24%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1962
typical home built · NC 1991
$736
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, 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.

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