A typical Watha home is worth roughly $143,000
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Watha?
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What it takes to buy in Watha
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That covers a typical Watha home, with $147K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $150 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.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Pender County, NC HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Watha in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.2 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Watha has permitted 25 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $853,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $706,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $699,000 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $265,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $570,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $208,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $17,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $225,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $279,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $510,000 |
| 2010 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $950,000 |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2007 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2006 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $815,000 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $764,000 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $268,000 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $175,000 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $367,000 |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $133,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
86% of Watha households own their home
Half of Watha’s homes were built before 1978.
North Carolina: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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What Watha buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.