housing costs · North Carolina
Housing costs in Clay County
What it costs to live here: rent, home values and the share of income rent takes.
Median gross rent
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | $804 | ± $238 | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | $791 | ± $75 | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | $793 | ± $93 | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | $756 | ± $174 | evidence → |
Median home value
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | $278,400 | ± $32,756 | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | $263,300 | ± $34,878 | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | $251,900 | ± $25,123 | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | $208,600 | ± $25,636 | evidence → |
Rent as share of income
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | 20.0 % | ± 20.3 % | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | 33.6 % | ± 12.5 % | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | 30.3 % | ± 10.4 % | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | 31.3 % | ± 12.8 % | evidence → |
In context
Median rent in Clay County is $804, below the North Carolina median of $886 across 100 counties (2020–2024).
American Community Survey, five-year estimates. Each release covers five years, so consecutive releases overlap by four of them — a change from one release to the next is damped, and reading them as annual values understates swings. Margins of error are at 90 % confidence and are wide in sparsely populated counties.