Chapel Hill, NC — income, home value, property tax, and sales tax.
ZIP code 27243, near Chapel Hill, sits comfortably in middle-income territory, with a median household income of $84,348 and per-capita income of $40,444. Homes here carry a median value of $298,600, and the county-level property tax rate of 0.91% means owners pay roughly $2,717 annually on a house at that median value. Sales tax runs 7.50% on purchases. Together these figures describe an area that is neither struggling nor wealthy, where housing costs and taxes take a steady but not overwhelming share of household earnings.
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