North Carolina rent and regional price data

Name: North Carolina cost-of-living and rent benchmarks
Creator: Every City in the USA
License: https://www.everycityintheusa.com/data/packages/north-carolina-cost-of-living-rent/terms/license_commercial_north_carolina_cost_of_living_rent_0833fbc68282/

Compare regional price levels and HUD rent benchmarks across North Carolina areas. Download the Excel workbook and CSVs.

19 regional price records with source geography and units
100 county/town rent records plus 1,601 ZIP-area rent records
Excel and CSV with field definitions and sources

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North Carolina map of one-year population percentage change, 2024 to 2025, for 549 Census PEP cities, over USGS shaded terrain relief. Green dots gained population, rust dots lost population, and gray dots did not change. Dot size reflects percentage change. Geographic context only; dots do not show ZIP income or rent values. — **City population change, 2024 to 2025.** Green dots gained, rust dots lost, gray dots did not change. The motion is illustrative, not a time series.
North Carolina PEP cities, geographic context only. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau PEP, Vintage 2025; shaded relief from USGS 3DEP.

**City population change, 2024 to 2025.** Green dots gained, rust dots lost, gray dots did not change. The motion is illustrative, not a time series.
North Carolina PEP cities, geographic context only. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau PEP, Vintage 2025; shaded relief from USGS 3DEP.

Regional prices and rent benchmarks

Price and rent benchmarks: BEA regional price indexes and HUD gross-rent benchmarks for studios through four-bedroom homes, in separate tables at their original geographic level.
Files: An Excel workbook, 3 CSV data tables and source documentation.

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regional_price_indexes: up to eight sample rows and columns. Enable JavaScript to explore other files.
bea_table	bea_geo_fips	region_name	native_grain	region_state_fips	cross_state_area	reference_year	rpp_all_items
MARPP	11700	Asheville, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	96.506
MARPP	15500	Burlington, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	93.196
MARPP	16740	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37\|45	true	2024	97.348
MARPP	20500	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	97.572
MARPP	22180	Fayetteville, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	91.978
MARPP	24140	Goldsboro, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	88.462
MARPP	24660	Greensboro-High Point, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	92.865
MARPP	24780	Greenville, NC (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	37	false	2024	88.402

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What does the package cover?

Regional price records and native HUD rent areas intersecting North Carolina. The ZIP table covers HUD areas intersecting the state and can include ZIP records outside it. These are regional benchmarks, not separate measured prices for every city.

FY2026 for Pinehurst-Southern Pines, effective October 1, 2025; FY2027 elsewhere, effective October 1, 2026; reviewed October 18, 2026: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
2024 regional price parities; published native regions: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
July 2023 CBSA delineations: U.S. Office of Management and Budget, CBSA delineations

HUD ZIP codes are not universally Census ZCTAs. Cross-state regional values describe the whole source area. No nearest-centroid city rent estimates are included. Every City in the USA is independent and not affiliated with BEA or HUD.

What's included in the download?

An Excel workbook, 3 CSV data tables and source documentation. Full files and sample files use the same columns. Every file is listed below.

12 files. 11 are previewed in the sample above. The rest are marked Not in the sample.

cost_of_living_rent.xlsx: Excel sheets matching the three separate HUD/BEA native-geography tables. No city allocation or interpolation is applied.
CITATION.txt: Source agencies, vintages and citation instructions for this release.
LICENSE.txt: The approved named-release evaluation license for simulated-payment testing.
README.md: How to use the files, with source coverage, units and limitations.
SOURCE_LINEAGE.json: Accepted source references, source vintages, rights decisions and transformations.
coverage_report.json: Geography coverage, native counts and limitations for this full package or sample.
field_dictionary.json: Field definitions, units, text identifiers and missing-value rules.
hud_geography_rents.csv: Native North Carolina HUD county memberships and gross-rent benchmarks. Applicable FY2026 for Pinehurst-Southern Pines, effective October 1, 2025, and FY2027 elsewhere, effective October 1, 2026. Read fiscal_year, effective_date and effective_status per row.
hud_zip_rents.csv: Applicable FY2026 for Pinehurst-Southern Pines, effective October 1, 2025, and FY2027 elsewhere, effective October 1, 2026. Reviewed October 18, 2026. ZIP plus HUD area is the key; full intersecting HUD areas retain cross-state rows. This is not a complete USPS directory.
regional_price_indexes.csv: BEA 2024 price levels for whole North Carolina-intersecting metropolitan areas and state/metro/nonmetro totals. U.S. = 100; these are not inflation rates or household budgets.
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PACKAGE_MANIFEST.json: Full package identity, source vintages, file hashes and publication state.Not in the sampleThe full-package manifest records the complete download; the sample has its own sample_manifest.json.

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How does the sample relate to the full package?

Sample rows come from the full release, with the same columns and workbook sheets. Sample documentation describes its scope and selection. The sample is for inspecting the files, not a representative statistical sample.

How should I read the numbers?

Regional price indexes compare places, not inflation over time. HUD rents are benchmarks, not current listings or guaranteed voucher payments. Source years and effective-date exceptions are documented in the files. Read the methodology and source files before comparing estimates.

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