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The median home value in Chapel Hill, NC is $621,909, down 0.68% from a year earlier.
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
$621,909
Year-over-Year
-0.68%
Population
63,906
The typical home value decreased by 2.7%, from $638,847 in May 2026 to $621,909 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.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $638,847 | -1.0% |
| Jun 2026 | $642,319 | -1.1% |
| Jul 2026 | $636,021 | -1.0% |
| Aug 2026 | $631,034 | -0.7% |
| Sep 2026 | $621,909 | -0.7% |
Chapel Hill ranks #3 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 101.6% above the state's city median of $308,446. It sits in Orange County, where the county-wide median is $494,660.
Chapel Hill police recorded a violent crime rate of 172 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,515 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 Chapel Hill, that value is $621,909. That's down 0.68% from a year earlier. It is about 101.6% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Chapel Hill are more expensive than Orange County as a whole, where the median is $494,660 — a difference of about 25.7%.
Chapel Hill police reported 172 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 63,906. 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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