Zip lookup · NC

28214
Charlotte, North Carolina.

Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro · population 43,837

What it costs per month · 28214 $1,746/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$998 (+133%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $2,222 -1%
$334,809$332,587 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $54,834 +20%
$277,752$332,587 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 28214 $1,746 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 28214$1,746
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.

Typical home values in zip 28214 fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 28214 rose 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 28214 runs $337/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $590 in Oct 2023.

That is $2,299 a month against $1,961 rent: a $1,746 mortgage payment, plus $197 property tax and $356 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 28214

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $2,299 Renting $1,961 Mortgage only $1,746
$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$2,299
  • Renting$1,961
  • Mortgage only$1,746

Property tax · $197/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Mecklenburg County, NC

Insurance & upkeep · $356/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Charlotte, NC — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,961 as of Sep 2026
+1.9%year on year
Typical home value $332,587 as of Sep 2026
-0.7%year on year

Asking rent — 28214

Against the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro and the national benchmark.

$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 28214 $1,961 Charlotte $1,735 United States $1,932
$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 28214$1,961
  • Charlotte$1,735
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 28214

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 28214 $332,587 Charlotte $381,392 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 28214$332,587
  • Charlotte$381,392
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 47 zips in range — sorting picks from all 47.

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4.5 28208 Charlotte 40,197 $1,587 $293,031
5.2 28216 Charlotte 57,507 $1,761 $316,033
5.4 28120 Mount Holly 25,805 $1,905 $363,265
5.9 28012 Belmont 26,556 $1,779 $418,445
6.1 28101 McAdenville 898 — $489,395
6.8 28032 Cramerton 2,869 $1,975 $306,361
7.3 28098 Lowell 3,851 — $268,231
7.6 28202 Charlotte 17,653 $1,899 $401,859
7.6 28203 Charlotte 18,823 $2,051 $674,790
7.7 28217 Charlotte 32,064 $1,617 $319,257
8.4 28206 Charlotte 15,375 $1,573 $321,727
8.9 28204 Charlotte 9,314 $1,671 $574,474
9.1 28209 Charlotte 24,331 $1,685 $670,879
9.1 28164 Stanley 16,874 $1,806 $364,284
9.6 28056 Gastonia 36,200 $2,111 $347,147
9.6 28207 Charlotte 9,527 $2,411 $1,643,933
10.0 28278 Charlotte 37,420 $1,875 $496,377
10.1 28273 Charlotte 50,966 $1,609 $363,432
10.3 28054 Gastonia 41,707 $1,483 $266,983
10.4 28269 Charlotte 79,586 $1,835 $351,379
10.8 28205 Charlotte 51,806 $1,771 $454,009
10.9 28078 Huntersville 71,657 $1,938 $535,352
11.7 28006 Alexis 1,518 — $337,228
11.7 28210 Charlotte 47,359 $1,406 $558,454
12.1 28211 Charlotte 33,925 $2,031 $923,652
13.2 28034 Dallas 18,979 $1,928 $281,669
13.3 28213 Charlotte 45,904 $1,548 $319,950
13.3 28262 Charlotte 50,003 $1,512 $337,996
13.7 28134 Pineville 13,245 $2,289 $416,648
13.8 28212 Charlotte 42,440 $1,340 $316,327

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.