The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 26374 sells for about $249,900, or $138 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.4% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 43 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $634 a month.
ZIP 26374 — Independence
The housing market in ZIP 28374 shows moderate activity with limited inventory and steady price appreciation. Sales volume remains low, reflecting a typical rural market environment where supply constraints continue to support current pricing levels.
Median prices moved up 2.4% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 43 days on market with 3.2 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
15% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 97.5% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 0.0% · poverty 2.6% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Researched annual trajectory for this ZIP, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.2%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this ZIP's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.1%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
versus the prior ACS vintage
net outflow — more people moved out than in
ZCTA 28374, Scotland County NC
Data retrieved from data.census.gov ZCTA 28374 profile.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.