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Median Home Price in Carolina Beach, NC

The median home value in Carolina Beach, NC is $604,565, up 1.84% from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$604,565

Year-over-Year

+1.84%

Population

6,917

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 0.8%, from $609,274 in May 2026 to $604,565 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Carolina Beach, NC monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$609,274	-0.5%
Jun 2026	$611,974	+0.2%
Jul 2026	$609,727	+0.9%
Aug 2026	$603,767	+1.5%
Sep 2026	$604,565	+1.8%

Carolina Beach ranks #5 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 96.0% above the state's city median of $308,446. It sits in New Hanover County, where the county-wide median is $445,851.

Crime in Carolina Beach

Carolina Beach police recorded a violent crime rate of 332 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,850 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Carolina Beach

What is the average home price in Carolina Beach, NC?

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 Carolina Beach, that value is $604,565. That's up 1.84% from a year earlier. It is about 96.0% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.

Is Carolina Beach expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Carolina Beach are more expensive than New Hanover County as a whole, where the median is $445,851 — a difference of about 35.6%.

Is Carolina Beach a safe place to live?

Carolina Beach police reported 332 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,917. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.