The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 28609 sells for about $407,600, or $199 per square foot.
Prices are down 2.27% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 56 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,238 a month.
ZIP 28609 — Catawba
The housing market in the 28609 ZIP code and broader Catawba County is experiencing downward pressure on prices and listing values. Year-over-year median listing prices have declined, reflecting a cooling trend in the local real estate environment.
Median prices moved down 2.3% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 56 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 1.8% · poverty 9.3% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
in-migration and out-migration balanced
ZCTA 28609, Catawba County, NC
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this ZIP — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
not determinable
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.