The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 28450 sells for about $345,000, or $185 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.1% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 42 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $817 a month.
ZIP 28450 — Lake Waccamaw
The housing market in 28450 shows moderate price appreciation and stable inventory levels. Market activity remains balanced with a healthy sale-to-list ratio, reflecting steady demand in this coastal North Carolina area.
Median prices moved up 2.1% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 42 days on market with 3.8 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
19% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 98.2% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 4.0% · poverty 10.0% — 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 6.5%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
versus the prior ACS vintage
net influx — more people moved in than out
ZCTA 28450, North Carolina
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this ZIP — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Data retrieved from data.census.gov ZCTA 28450 profile.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.