A typical Rich Square home is worth about $90,000
Up 9.9% in a year, 73% below the North Carolina typical home.
Only 2 sales 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 Rich Square?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.4 years of income
Less than across North Carolina (4.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Rich Square home, with $47K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020 a month here, $450 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rich Square’s typical property tax (1.30% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 24.5% in five years
About the same pace as North Carolina (23.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Rich Square | North Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $44,000 | $179,000 |
| 2018 | $50,000 | $190,000 |
| 2019 | $48,000 | $203,000 |
| 2020 | $50,000 | $215,000 |
| 2021 | $67,000 | $242,000 |
| 2022 | $71,000 | $287,000 |
| 2023 | $75,000 | $320,000 |
| 2024 | $74,000 | $332,000 |
| 2025 | $76,000 | $338,000 |
| 2026 | $84,000 | $336,000 |
| August 2026 | $90,000 | $335,000 |
A typical Rich Square home worth $43K in September 2016 is worth about $90K 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 $1,020
Renters already here pay a median of $764, 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 (Bertie County, NC): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 of Rich Square’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Rich Square’s homes were built before 1970.
North Carolina: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
Neighbors talk housing
What Rich Square buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.