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The median home value in Black Mountain, NC is $465,607 as of 2026-07-31, down 3.51% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$465,607
Year-over-Year
-3.51%
Population
8,564
Black Mountain ranks #19 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 50.4% above the state's city median of $309,616. It sits in Buncombe County, where the county-wide median is $453,427.
Median household income in Black Mountain is $77,042, so the typical home value is about 6.0× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Black Mountain police recorded a violent crime rate of 58 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 1,179 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Black Mountain, that value is $465,607. That's down 3.51% from a year earlier. It is about 50.4% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Black Mountain are more expensive than Buncombe County as a whole, where the median is $453,427 — a difference of about 2.7%.
Median household income here is $77,042, so the typical home value is about 6.0× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Black Mountain police reported 58 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 8,564. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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