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The median home value in Tarboro, NC is $157,347, down 0.59% 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
$157,347
Year-over-Year
-0.59%
Population
10,920
The typical home value decreased by 0.1%, from $157,428 in May 2026 to $157,347 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 | $157,428 | -3.3% |
| Jun 2026 | $158,811 | -2.6% |
| Jul 2026 | $156,808 | -1.9% |
| Aug 2026 | $157,007 | -1.1% |
| Sep 2026 | $157,347 | -0.6% |
Tarboro ranks #94 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 49.0% below the state's city median of $308,446. It sits in Edgecombe County, where the county-wide median is $136,679.
Tarboro police recorded a violent crime rate of 668 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 2,692 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 Tarboro, that value is $157,347. That's down 0.59% from a year earlier. It is about 49.0% below the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Tarboro are more expensive than Edgecombe County as a whole, where the median is $136,679 — a difference of about 15.1%.
Tarboro police reported 668 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,920. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.