Wesley Chapel, North Carolina.
Typical home $648,736 (-0.1% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,972 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $599 -0%
- $649,336$648,736 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $140,485 +28%
- $508,252$648,736 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.
- Wesley Chapel$3,405
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Wesley Chapel, NC fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wesley Chapel, Union County, North Carolina
Wesley Chapel is a village of 8,681 people in Union County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Union County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wesley Chapel is a village in Union County, North Carolina, where nearly every home is lived in by its owners. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and incomes sit well above the poverty line, with fewer people living in poverty than is typical. Homes here are valued high, and a large share of adults have a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Across Union County, the largest workplaces include Union County Public Schools, Atrium Health Union and Tyson Farms. The commute is on the long side, and more people work from home than in many places.
Things to do. The closest-known attractions are a longer drive away, with Charlotte the main draw. Carowinds is an amusement park, Charlotte Motor Speedway is a race track, and Bank of America Stadium is a stadium for big games and concerts. Winters are cool and summers hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year, so outings are possible in most seasons.
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- 3,063households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 78,177 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monroe Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- Union County Public SchoolsSchool district4,880FTE
- Brookdale Union ParkAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities2,558
- County of UnionLegislative bodies1,707
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,479
- Atrium Health UnionGeneral hospital1,371FTE
- Assa Abloy Entrance Systems USDoors, metal, manufacturing1,196
- Allegheny TechnologiesSmelting and refining of nonferrous metals, secondary1,047
- Pilgrim'sChickens, slaughtering and dressing740
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 169 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 28,533 people in all across the county; Wesley Chapel has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Wesley Chapel’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Union County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Wesley Chapel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wesley Chapel$648,736
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wesley Chapel listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Wesley Chapel33.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wesley Chapel41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wesley Chapel9
Zip codes with a Wesley Chapel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wesley Chapel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.