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The median home value in Wendell, NC is $365,931, down 1.35% 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
$365,931
Year-over-Year
-1.35%
Population
16,281
The typical home value decreased by 1.7%, from $372,211 in May 2026 to $365,931 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 | $372,211 | -1.3% |
| Jun 2026 | $371,918 | -1.2% |
| Jul 2026 | $372,189 | -1.2% |
| Aug 2026 | $367,247 | -1.2% |
| Sep 2026 | $365,931 | -1.4% |
Wendell ranks #35 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 18.6% above the state's city median of $308,446. It sits in Wake County, where the county-wide median is $471,020.
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 $365,931. That's down 1.35% from a year earlier. It is about 18.6% above the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Wendell are cheaper than Wake County as a whole, where the median is $471,020 — a difference of about 22.3%.
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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