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North Carolina

Wake County

The median owner-occupied home in Wake County had a real-estate tax bill of $3,023 (± $41) a year, compared with $1,815 in North Carolina and $2,969 nationwide. The median home value was $422,800 (± $4,330), compared with $259,400 in North Carolina and $303,400 nationwide.

U.S. Census Bureau estimates for Wake County, North Carolina and the United States, with margins of error
MeasureWake CountyNorth CarolinaUnited States
Population 1,151,009 10,584,340 332,387,540
Median annual property tax bill (homeowners) $3,023 ± $41 $1,815 ± $9 $2,969 ± $3
Median home value $422,800 ± $4,330 $259,400 ± $931 $303,400 ± $362
Median household income $101,763 ± $1,289 $69,904 ± $346 $78,538 ± $176
Property tax as a share of home value (calculated) 0.71% ± 0.01 points 0.70% ± under 0.01 points 0.98% ± under 0.01 points
Homes lived in by their owners 64.4% ± 0.6 points 66.4% ± 0.3 points 65.0% ± 0.3 points
Owner households headed by someone 65 or older 23.8% ± 0.5 points 32.7% ± 0.1 points 32.6% ± 0.2 points
Owners spending 30% or more of income on housing costs 16.9% ± 0.7 points 19.0% ± 0.2 points 22.2% ± 0.1 points
How to read these numbers

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2019–2023: tables B25103 (real estate taxes), B25077 (home value), B19013 (household income), B01003 (population), B25003 (owners and renters), B25007 (age of householder), B25091 (housing costs as a share of income); see the Census ACS data page.

Cities, towns and villages in Wake County (15)

Incorporated places with their own local government. A place that crosses a county line is listed in each county it touches and marked “partly”; its page shows figures for the whole place.

Other named communities in Wake County (313)

These names come from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which records historical and local names of populated places: small settlements, neighborhoods, rural localities and former towns. The Census Bureau does not report them as cities, towns or census-designated places, so no figures exist for them at this level. The county figures above are the closest available estimate. A name can appear for a place that no longer exists or that lies inside a larger place.

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