Midland, North Carolina.
Typical home $426,752 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $2,232 . Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,259 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,822 +2%
- $419,930$426,752 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,968 +21%
- $353,784$426,752 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.
- Midland$2,240
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Midland, NC rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midland, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Midland is a town of 4,684 people in Cabarrus County. Half its households earn more than $101,477 a year and half less, against $89,005 across Cabarrus County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Cabarrus County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midland is a small town in Cabarrus County where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cool, with a little snow in most years, and summers are hot, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, in shops, and in the building trades. Some of the town's larger workplaces fit that last group, among them Cardinal Concrete, SDH Charlotte, and the Tractor Supply Company store. Commutes are fairly long, and more people work from home than in many towns.
Things to do. Clear Creek, a river, is a short drive away, and it is the closest place on the list for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Carowinds, an amusement park, and to Lake Norman, a reservoir. Charlotte Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,767households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cabarrus County had 91,560 jobs in 2025, 4.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Concord weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Midland
- Cardinal ConcreteConstruction70
- SDH CharlotteFor-sale builders, residential54
- Tractor Supply Company StoreGeneral merchandise stores25
- Ned Stevens Gutters of NC - CharlotteGutter cleaning services21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 170 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 high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Midland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cabarrus County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Midland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midland$426,752
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Midland listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Midland23.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Midland50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Midland12
Zip codes with a Midland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.