Zip lookup · NC

27284
Kernersville, North Carolina.

Kernersville, Forsyth County, NC · Winston-Salem, NC metro · population 58,065

What it costs per month · 27284 $1,679/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$915 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $2,501 +1%
$317,385$319,886 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $61,141 +24%
$258,745$319,886 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 27284 $1,679 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 27284$1,679
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.

Typical home values in zip 27284 rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 27284 rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 27284 runs $523/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $682 in Nov 2023.

That is $2,233 a month against $1,710 rent: a $1,679 mortgage payment, plus $212 property tax and $342 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 27284

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 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,233 Renting $1,710 Mortgage only $1,679
$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$2,233
  • Renting$1,710
  • Mortgage only$1,679

Property tax · $212/mo 0.79% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 3 counties

Insurance & upkeep · $342/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 3 counties: Forsyth County, NC 83% · Guilford County, NC 14% · Davidson County, NC 3%

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

Asking rent $1,710 as of Sep 2026
+3.2%year on year
Typical home value $319,886 as of Sep 2026
+0.8%year on year

Asking rent — 27284

Against the Winston-Salem, NC metro and the national benchmark.

$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 27284 $1,710 Winston $1,529 United States $1,932
$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2022 2024 2026
  • 27284$1,710
  • Winston$1,529
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 27284

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 27284 $319,886 Winston $277,512 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 27284$319,886
  • Winston$277,512
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 35 zips in range — sorting picks from all 35.

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4.1 27235 Colfax 5,237 — $414,258
6.1 27310 Oak Ridge 8,622 — $602,406
6.6 27051 Walkertown 7,873 $2,000 $264,373
6.8 27101 Winston Salem 22,973 $1,571 $223,253
7.7 27409 Greensboro 17,551 $1,428 $203,993
7.8 27009 Belews Creek 2,939 — $316,912
7.9 27265 High Point 48,798 $1,656 $301,113
9.1 27107 Winston Salem 50,769 $1,561 $241,252
9.3 27105 Winston Salem 40,678 $1,122 $169,765
10.4 27410 Greensboro 54,921 $1,395 $355,840
11.0 27262 High Point 28,353 $1,269 $210,239
11.8 27357 Stokesdale 9,922 — $392,528
11.8 27282 Jamestown 15,927 $2,022 $329,448
12.4 27260 High Point 25,299 $1,126 $138,450
13.1 27127 Winston Salem 41,443 $1,715 $254,880
13.3 27358 Summerfield 15,685 $2,412 $515,883
13.5 27407 Greensboro 51,697 $1,317 $240,055
13.8 27106 Winston Salem 49,670 $1,327 $330,030
13.9 27104 Winston Salem 31,783 $1,347 $369,107
14.2 27103 Winston Salem 33,325 $1,651 $276,246
14.5 27019 Germanton 3,544 — $270,534
14.6 27403 Greensboro 22,557 $1,291 $231,769
14.6 27045 Rural Hall 10,863 $1,708 $268,456
14.6 27052 Walnut Cove 10,506 — $242,786
14.8 27408 Greensboro 16,519 $1,501 $342,920
15.7 27455 Greensboro 29,302 $1,564 $368,315
16.4 27263 High Point 21,446 $1,334 $225,965
17.7 27401 Greensboro 21,920 $1,321 $179,050
17.7 27040 Pfafftown 12,665 $2,286 $332,622
18.1 27360 Thomasville 49,510 $1,348 $236,522

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