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The median home value in Garner, NC is $385,396 as of 2026-07-31, down 1.91% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$385,396
Year-over-Year
-1.91%
Population
36,720
Garner ranks #33 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 24.5% 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 Garner is $78,756, so the typical home value is about 4.9× 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).
Garner police recorded a violent crime rate of 357 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 4,507 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 Garner, that value is $385,396. That's down 1.91% from a year earlier. It is about 24.5% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Garner are cheaper than Wake County as a whole, where the median is $481,361 — a difference of about 19.9%.
Median household income here is $78,756, so the typical home value is about 4.9× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Garner police reported 357 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 36,720. 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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