Home values, rents and more in Winston-Salem, NC
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How Winston-Salem compares
The typical home in Winston-Salem, NC is worth about $260,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in Winston-Salem are 6% below the typical value in the Winston-Salem metro area ($278,000) and 29% below the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in Winston-Salem were flat, compared with +1.7% in the Winston-Salem metro area and +1.2% nationally.
Typical rent is $1,478 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index), 3% below the Winston-Salem metro area ($1,529) and 23% below the U.S. ($1,932). Rents rose 5.0% over the past year.
The median household income is $59,268, against $65,975 in the Winston-Salem metro area and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 252,037 people live in Winston-Salem (American Community Survey 2020–24).
Winston-Salem has the 8th-lowest typical home value of the 23 cities in the Winston-Salem metro area and the 246th-lowest of 541 in North Carolina with Zillow figures.
Part of: Forsyth County, NC · Winston metro area · North Carolina
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Sources
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.