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Housing in Rosman

A typical Rosman home is worth about $355,000

Up 2.1% in a year, 6% above the North Carolina typical home.

Typical home value
$355K
▲ 2.1% in a year · NC $335K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,170
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,435
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Rosman?

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

★ What stands out · Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170

Renters already here pay a median of $867, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$890
1 bedroom$900
2 bedrooms$1,170
3 bedrooms$1,410
4 bedrooms$1,760
73%
of households rent · NC 33%
247
renter households
$867
median rent paid today · Census

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

Price trend

Up 28.2% in five years

Faster than North Carolina (23.2%).

RosmanNorth Carolina
$150K$200K$250K$300K$350K$400K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryRosmanNorth Carolina
2017$173,000$179,000
2018$188,000$190,000
2019$198,000$203,000
2020$204,000$215,000
2021$242,000$242,000
2022$269,000$287,000
2023$314,000$320,000
2024$335,000$332,000
2025$350,000$338,000
2026$355,000$336,000
August 2026$355,000$335,000
Then & now

A typical Rosman home worth $170K in September 2016 is worth about $355K today.

+$185K
+2.1%
past year
+28.2%
past 5 years
+108.8%
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 6.6 years of income

More than across North Carolina (4.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$217,000
Typical Rosman home $355K

That’s $138K short of a typical Rosman home.

The typical home, each month
$2,060
Loan $1,760Tax $200Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170 a month here, $890 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rosman’s typical property tax (0.67% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

27% of Rosman households own their home

Half of Rosman’s homes were built before 1991.

Owners and renters
Own 27%Rent 73%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1991
typical home built · NC 1991
$1,435
median property tax bill · NC $1,896
0.67%
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.

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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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