State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in North Carolina
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,228 ± $5 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 48.9% ± 0.4 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 23.6% ± 0.3 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $49,120. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | $1,228 ± $5 | 48.9% | 23.6% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in North Carolina
- Alamance County$1,064 median gross rent · 46.7% rent burden
- Alexander County$764 median gross rent · 39.4% rent burden
- Alleghany County$675 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Anson County$814 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Ashe County$859 median gross rent · 41.4% rent burden
- Avery County$773 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Beaufort County$871 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Bertie County$839 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Bladen County$773 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Brunswick County$1,351 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Buncombe County$1,362 median gross rent · 53.9% rent burden
- Burke County$884 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Cabarrus County$1,414 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Caldwell County$744 median gross rent · 39.8% rent burden
- Camden County$1,232 median gross rent · 27.5% rent burden
- Carteret County$1,108 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Caswell County$727 median gross rent · 41.7% rent burden
- Catawba County$965 median gross rent · 41% rent burden
- Chatham County$1,180 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Cherokee County$813 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Chowan County$681 median gross rent · 54.5% rent burden
- Clay County$804 median gross rent · 40.4% rent burden
- Cleveland County$914 median gross rent · 49.5% rent burden
- Columbus County$824 median gross rent · 49.8% rent burden
- Craven County$1,110 median gross rent · 46.3% rent burden
- Cumberland County$1,222 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Currituck County$1,162 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Dare County$1,345 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Davidson County$901 median gross rent · 42.1% rent burden
- Davie County$867 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Duplin County$865 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Durham County$1,508 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Edgecombe County$858 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Forsyth County$1,098 median gross rent · 49.1% rent burden
- Franklin County$1,083 median gross rent · 54.6% rent burden
- Gaston County$1,153 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
- Gates County$1,143 median gross rent · 25.7% rent burden
- Graham County$676 median gross rent · 48.5% rent burden
- Granville County$1,008 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden
- Greene County$853 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Guilford County$1,163 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Halifax County$813 median gross rent · 49.4% rent burden
- Harnett County$1,112 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
- Haywood County$1,067 median gross rent · 51.6% rent burden
- Henderson County$1,187 median gross rent · 47.7% rent burden
- Hertford County$844 median gross rent · 63.3% rent burden
- Hoke County$1,089 median gross rent · 50.2% rent burden
- Iredell County$1,252 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Jackson County$904 median gross rent · 42.2% rent burden
- Johnston County$1,146 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Jones County$747 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
- Lee County$1,017 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Lenoir County$861 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Lincoln County$1,015 median gross rent · 41.7% rent burden
- Macon County$803 median gross rent · 38.1% rent burden
- Madison County$780 median gross rent · 40.9% rent burden
- Martin County$758 median gross rent · 41.6% rent burden
- McDowell County$806 median gross rent · 39.7% rent burden
- Mecklenburg County$1,627 median gross rent · 49.4% rent burden
- Mitchell County$813 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Montgomery County$766 median gross rent · 37.7% rent burden
- Moore County$1,254 median gross rent · 48.8% rent burden
- Nash County$953 median gross rent · 40.6% rent burden
- New Hanover County$1,417 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Northampton County$758 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
- Onslow County$1,265 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
- Orange County$1,496 median gross rent · 58.1% rent burden
- Pamlico County$752 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Pasquotank County$1,170 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Pender County$1,106 median gross rent · 50.2% rent burden
- Perquimans County$1,008 median gross rent · 45.6% rent burden
- Person County$864 median gross rent · 60.4% rent burden
- Pitt County$993 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
- Polk County$1,178 median gross rent · 52.1% rent burden
- Randolph County$887 median gross rent · 43.7% rent burden
- Richmond County$724 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Robeson County$805 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Rockingham County$810 median gross rent · 50.9% rent burden
- Rowan County$1,013 median gross rent · 46.7% rent burden
- Rutherford County$783 median gross rent · 46.8% rent burden
- Sampson County$834 median gross rent · 46.8% rent burden
- Scotland County$778 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- Stanly County$861 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Stokes County$775 median gross rent · 46.1% rent burden
- Surry County$761 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
- Swain County$742 median gross rent · 38.2% rent burden
- Transylvania County$967 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Tyrrell County$644 median gross rent · 52.2% rent burden
- Union County$1,496 median gross rent · 43.2% rent burden
- Vance County$883 median gross rent · 56.9% rent burden
- Wake County$1,623 median gross rent · 48.3% rent burden
- Warren County$790 median gross rent · 53.4% rent burden
- Washington County$743 median gross rent · 49.5% rent burden
- Watauga County$1,127 median gross rent · 65.9% rent burden
- Wayne County$965 median gross rent · 47.3% rent burden
- Wilkes County$723 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
- Wilson County$953 median gross rent · 46.7% rent burden
- Yadkin County$766 median gross rent · 50.3% rent burden
- Yancey County$882 median gross rent · 47.4% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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