Zip lookup · NC

28012
Belmont, North Carolina.

Belmont, Gaston County, NC · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro · population 26,556

What it costs per month · 28012 $2,196/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,248 (+132%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $1,549 -0%
$419,994$418,445 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $84,806 +25%
$333,639$418,445 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 28012 $2,196 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 28012$2,196
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.

Typical home values in zip 28012 fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 28012 rose 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 28012 runs $1,125/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,257 in Oct 2023.

That is $2,904 a month against $1,779 rent: a $2,196 mortgage payment, plus $260 property tax and $448 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 28012

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.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,904 Renting $1,779 Mortgage only $2,196
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$2,904
  • Renting$1,779
  • Mortgage only$2,196

Property tax · $260/mo 0.75% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Gaston County, NC

Insurance & upkeep · $448/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: Belmont, NC — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,779 as of Sep 2026
+1.4%year on year
Typical home value $418,445 as of Sep 2026
-0.4%year on year

Asking rent — 28012

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

$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 28012 $1,779 Charlotte $1,735 United States $1,932
$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2022 2024 2026
  • 28012$1,779
  • Charlotte$1,735
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 28012

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 28012 $418,445 Charlotte $381,392 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 28012$418,445
  • Charlotte$381,392
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 45 zips in range — sorting picks from all 45.

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2.7 28032 Cramerton 2,869 $1,975 $306,361
3.8 28101 McAdenville 898 — $489,395
4.8 28056 Gastonia 36,200 $2,111 $347,147
5.2 28098 Lowell 3,851 — $268,231
5.8 28278 Charlotte 37,420 $1,875 $496,377
5.9 28214 Charlotte 43,837 $1,961 $332,587
7.1 28054 Gastonia 41,707 $1,483 $266,983
7.7 28208 Charlotte 40,197 $1,587 $293,031
8.0 28273 Charlotte 50,966 $1,609 $363,432
8.0 28217 Charlotte 32,064 $1,617 $319,257
8.5 28120 Mount Holly 25,805 $1,905 $363,265
10.3 28203 Charlotte 18,823 $2,051 $674,790
10.8 28209 Charlotte 24,331 $1,685 $670,879
10.9 28052 Gastonia 36,272 $1,385 $210,442
11.0 28216 Charlotte 57,507 $1,761 $316,033
11.1 28202 Charlotte 17,653 $1,899 $401,859
11.7 29708 Fort Mill 43,515 $1,777 $568,830
11.9 28210 Charlotte 47,359 $1,406 $558,454
12.1 28204 Charlotte 9,314 $1,671 $574,474
12.2 28207 Charlotte 9,527 $2,411 $1,643,933
12.2 28134 Pineville 13,245 $2,289 $416,648
12.5 28164 Stanley 16,874 $1,806 $364,284
12.5 29710 Clover 40,595 $2,002 $411,589
12.6 28034 Dallas 18,979 $1,928 $281,669
12.8 28206 Charlotte 15,375 $1,573 $321,727
13.9 28006 Alexis 1,518 — $337,228
14.1 28211 Charlotte 33,925 $2,031 $923,652
14.3 28205 Charlotte 51,806 $1,771 $454,009
14.4 28226 Charlotte 39,381 $1,638 $665,252
15.2 29715 Fort Mill 46,865 $1,756 $479,696

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