The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 28666 sells for about $279,163, or $175 per square foot.
Prices are down 3.9% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 60 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,250 a month.
This ZIP has no home sales of its own, so its market figures come from Burke County, North Carolina (county-level). Population, rents, hazards, lending and amenities are this ZIP's own readings.
ZIP 28666 — Icard
The housing market in the Burke County area is currently balanced, with home prices showing a slight year-over-year decline. Sales activity is moving at a steady pace, and the market is characterized by a lack of significant price volatility.
This area is suitable for those seeking a lower cost of living compared to the national average, with a median household income slightly above the regional metro average.
Median prices moved down 3.9% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 60 days on market with 4.1 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
21% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 96.5% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 0.0% · poverty 78.8% — a mixed stability profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
in-migration and out-migration balanced
ZCTA 28666, Burke 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.
The mean travel time to work for residents is approximately 24.8 minutes.
The local economy is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton metropolitan area, which features a diverse industrial mix.
Data retrieved from Census Reporter profile for Rutherford College, NC.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass. Contamination repair: median price, price per sq ft reproduced Burke County's own figure to the dollar and were cleared — a parent aggregate is not this ZIP's reading.