Zip lookup · NC

28227
Mint Hill, North Carolina.

Mint Hill, Mecklenburg County, NC · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro · population 60,482

What it costs per month · 28227 $2,012/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,134 (+129%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $150 -0%
$383,557$383,407 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $68,030 +22%
$315,377$383,407 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 28227 $2,012 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 28227$2,012
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.

Typical home values in zip 28227 fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 28227 fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 28227 runs $955/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,059 in Oct 2023.

That is $2,650 a month against $1,695 rent: a $2,012 mortgage payment, plus $227 property tax and $410 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 28227

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 $2,650 Renting $1,695 Mortgage only $2,012
$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$2,650
  • Renting$1,695
  • Mortgage only$2,012

Property tax · $227/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 2 counties

Insurance & upkeep · $410/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.

This zip spans 2 counties: Mecklenburg County, NC 99% · Union County, NC 1%

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

Asking rent $1,695 as of Sep 2026
-0.9%year on year
Typical home value $383,407 as of Sep 2026
-0.0%year on year

Asking rent — 28227

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

$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 28227 $1,695 Charlotte $1,735 United States $1,932
$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2018 2022 2026
  • 28227$1,695
  • Charlotte$1,735
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 28227

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 28227 $383,407 Charlotte $381,392 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 28227$383,407
  • Charlotte$381,392
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 39 zips in range — sorting picks from all 39.

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4.9 28215 Charlotte 66,674 $2,051 $344,020
5.3 28212 Charlotte 42,440 $1,340 $316,327
5.9 28105 Matthews 46,817 $1,674 $483,056
5.9 28079 Indian Trail 43,035 $2,020 $428,678
7.9 28075 Harrisburg 21,517 $2,519 $501,189
8.0 28205 Charlotte 51,806 $1,771 $454,009
8.1 28213 Charlotte 45,904 $1,548 $319,950
8.2 28270 Charlotte 32,448 $1,530 $672,352
8.3 28211 Charlotte 33,925 $2,031 $923,652
8.5 28107 Midland 10,244 $2,232 $427,970
9.2 28104 Matthews 36,641 $2,292 $588,024
9.9 28207 Charlotte 9,527 $2,411 $1,643,933
10.1 28204 Charlotte 9,314 $1,671 $574,474
10.7 28206 Charlotte 15,375 $1,573 $321,727
10.8 28262 Charlotte 50,003 $1,512 $337,996
11.0 28110 Monroe 56,971 $1,979 $367,683
11.0 28226 Charlotte 39,381 $1,638 $665,252
11.3 28202 Charlotte 17,653 $1,899 $401,859
11.5 28209 Charlotte 24,331 $1,685 $670,879
11.8 28203 Charlotte 18,823 $2,051 $674,790
12.2 28210 Charlotte 47,359 $1,406 $558,454
12.6 28163 Stanfield 6,491 — $396,358
13.3 28277 Charlotte 73,882 $1,974 $602,387
13.4 28269 Charlotte 79,586 $1,835 $351,379
14.6 28217 Charlotte 32,064 $1,617 $319,257
14.7 28208 Charlotte 40,197 $1,587 $293,031
15.0 28025 Concord 58,334 $1,835 $339,208
15.3 28027 Concord 81,772 $1,752 $409,576
15.4 28134 Pineville 13,245 $2,289 $416,648
15.8 28216 Charlotte 57,507 $1,761 $316,033

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