High Point, North Carolina.
Typical home $247,717 (+0.0% in a year), asking rent $1,418 (+3.8%). Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$716 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2 +0%
- $247,714$247,717 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,048 +25%
- $198,669$247,717 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.
- High Point$1,300
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in High Point, NC rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in High Point, NC rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in High Point runs $320/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $490 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,738 a month against $1,418 rent: a $1,300 mortgage payment, plus $173 property tax and $265 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — High Point
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.
- Owning all in$1,738
- Renting$1,418
- Mortgage only$1,300
Property tax · $173/mo 0.84% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Guilford County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $265/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.
Living in High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina
High Point is a city of 114,059 people in Guilford County. Half its households earn more than $64,561 a year and half less, against $68,642 across Guilford County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in High Point was 4.5% in August 2026, and Guilford County had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. High Point is a city in Guilford County, large for a North Carolina city and with a median age somewhat younger than the typical American town's. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and more homes here are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are mild and short, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, and summers turn properly hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail close behind. High Point Regional Health, the City of High Point and the Ralph Lauren fulfillment center are among the largest workplaces in town. Most people have a commute of a fairly ordinary length, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. The West Fork Deep River runs in or beside town, and Truist Point and A.J. Simeon Stadium are stadiums close by for games. Reedy Fork, a river, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the North Carolina Zoo is a longer drive away, as is Old Salem, a museum.
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- 45,872households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guilford County had 292,379 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the High Pt weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in High Point
- High Point Regional Health-601 N Elm St(1251)Hospitals, general medical and surgical3,497
- City of High PointGeneral public administration1,534
- Ralph Lauren Corporation - HPD Fulfillment CenterWarehousing, general merchandise1,089
- Environmental Air SystemsMechanical contractors795
- Environmental Air SystemsFurnaces, warm air, manufacturing531
- Marsh Furniture CompanyKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing481
- The Presbyterian HomesContinuing care retirement communities460
- Fastenal CompanyIndustrial supplies merchant wholesalers356
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 124 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,159 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of High PointRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in High Point’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Guilford County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
High Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- High Point$247,717
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 High Point listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- High Point32.79%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- High Point19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- High Point468
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- High Point137
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- High Point$240,012
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- High Point97.76%
Zip codes with a High Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls High Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in High Point
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27265 | High Point | 48,798 | $1,656 | $301,113 |
| 27262 | High Point | 28,353 | $1,269 | $210,239 |
| 27260 | High Point | 25,299 | $1,126 | $138,450 |