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The median home value in Chapel Hill, NC is $636,021 as of 2026-07-31, down 0.97% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$636,021
Year-over-Year
-0.97%
Population
63,906
Chapel Hill ranks #3 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 105.4% above the state's city median of $309,616. It sits in Orange County, where the county-wide median is $508,867.
Median household income in Chapel Hill is $85,989, so the typical home value is about 7.4× 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).
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 $636,021. That's down 0.97% from a year earlier. It is about 105.4% 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 $508,867 — a difference of about 25.0%.
Median household income here is $85,989, so the typical home value is about 7.4× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
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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