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Housing in Warrenton

A typical Warrenton home is worth about $149,000

Up 4.9% in a year, 56% below the North Carolina typical home.

Typical home value
$149K
▲ 4.9% in a year · NC $335K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,350
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,546
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Warrenton?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.4 years of income

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

You could afford about
$174,000
Typical Warrenton home $149K

That covers a typical Warrenton home, with $25K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$880
Loan $740Tax $100Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,350 a month here, $470 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Warrenton’s typical property tax (0.81% 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

3 of Warrenton’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Warrenton’s homes were built before 1952.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 52%Rent 48%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1952
typical home built · NC 1991
$1,546
median property tax bill · NC $1,896
0.81%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · NC 0.66%
3%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes
Historic houses in Warrenton

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.

Price trend

Up 20.5% in five years

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

WarrentonNorth Carolina
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K$350K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryWarrentonNorth Carolina
2017$78,000$179,000
2018$82,000$190,000
2019$84,000$203,000
2020$92,000$215,000
2021$109,000$242,000
2022$128,000$287,000
2023$136,000$320,000
2024$139,000$332,000
2025$143,000$338,000
2026$143,000$336,000
August 2026$149,000$335,000
Then & now

A typical Warrenton home worth $78K in September 2016 is worth about $149K today.

+$71K
+4.9%
past year
+20.5%
past 5 years
+91.1%
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 $1,350

Renters already here pay a median of $716, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,170
1 bedroom$1,190
2 bedrooms$1,350
3 bedrooms$1,660
4 bedrooms$2,200
48%
of households rent · NC 33%
223
renter households
$716
median rent paid today · Census

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

On the market in Warrenton

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

Neighbors talk housing

What Warrenton buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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