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The median home value in Mount Airy, NC is $220,745 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.46% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$220,745
Year-over-Year
+3.46%
Population
10,590
Mount Airy ranks #86 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 28.7% below the state's city median of $309,616. It sits in Surry County, where the county-wide median is $242,752.
Median household income in Mount Airy is $40,275, so the typical home value is about 5.5× 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).
Mount Airy police recorded a violent crime rate of 312 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,436 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 Mount Airy, that value is $220,745. That's up 3.46% from a year earlier. It is about 28.7% below the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Mount Airy are cheaper than Surry County as a whole, where the median is $242,752 — a difference of about 9.1%.
Median household income here is $40,275, so the typical home value is about 5.5× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Mount Airy police reported 312 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,590. 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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