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The median home value in Cary, NC is $628,913 as of 2026-07-31, down 1.76% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$628,913
Year-over-Year
-1.76%
Population
181,793
Cary ranks #4 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 103.1% above the state's city median of $309,616. It sits in Wake County, where the county-wide median is $481,361.
Median household income in Cary is $134,905, so the typical home value is about 4.7× 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).
Cary police recorded a violent crime rate of 71 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 1,317 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 Cary, that value is $628,913. That's down 1.76% from a year earlier. It is about 103.1% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Cary are more expensive than Wake County as a whole, where the median is $481,361 — a difference of about 30.7%.
Median household income here is $134,905, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Cary police reported 71 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 181,793. 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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