housing costs · North Carolina
Housing costs in Swain 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 | $742 | ± $53 | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | $715 | ± $30 | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | $690 | ± $34 | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | $655 | ± $53 | evidence → |
Median home value
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | $207,000 | ± $19,733 | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | $209,800 | ± $19,954 | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | $178,900 | ± $27,687 | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | $169,000 | ± $18,603 | evidence → |
Rent as share of income
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | 24.1 % | ± 3.5 % | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | 23.6 % | ± 3.8 % | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | 22.8 % | ± 2.4 % | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | 23.7 % | ± 2.6 % | evidence → |
In context
Median rent in Swain County is $742, 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.