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The median home value in Wendell, NC is $372,189 as of 2026-07-31, down 1.17% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$372,189
Year-over-Year
-1.17%
Population
16,281
Wendell ranks #35 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 20.2% 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 Wendell is $95,787, so the typical home value is about 3.9× 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).
Wendell police recorded a violent crime rate of 135 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,075 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 Wendell, that value is $372,189. That's down 1.17% from a year earlier. It is about 20.2% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Wendell are cheaper than Wake County as a whole, where the median is $481,361 — a difference of about 22.7%.
Median household income here is $95,787, so the typical home value is about 3.9× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Wendell police reported 135 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 16,281. 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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