Elizabeth City, NC Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Elizabeth City, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Elizabeth City sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 234
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $298,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $172
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $200,000 and $345,110

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 234 closed sales in Elizabeth City over the last six months, with a median closing price of $298,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $200,000 and $345,110. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 90% of the Elizabeth City closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 232 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $141 and $202 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Elizabeth City, NC (October 2026)

The median home price in Elizabeth City is $298,000, measured across the 234 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $200,000 and $345,110.

Where Elizabeth City sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Elizabeth City over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $200,000 and $345,110. Among the 100 North Carolina markets with a published band, Elizabeth City's middle-half spread ($200,000 to $345,110) ranks 57th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 55th percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 11 days, across 62 Elizabeth City closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 42 days, across 46 Elizabeth City closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Elizabeth City angle

Elizabeth City sits in the middle of our distribution on both measures, and that makes it a straightforward pricing job. Across 234 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $298,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $200,000 and $345,110, a band close to typical for the markets we track. There is slightly more room below the median than above it in the closed data, so a subject you judge to be under par has further to fall than a comparable case has to climb. With a count of closings close to typical for the markets we follow, one or two well chosen filters are affordable; three or four will leave you reading noise instead of a cluster.

Elizabeth City market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Elizabeth City ZIP codes: 27909.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Elizabeth City address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Elizabeth City, NC
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3720580
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 234
Median sold price: $298,000
Median sold $/sqft: $172 (232 qualifying)
Property mix: 90% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Elizabeth City over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Elizabeth City city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 19% of the 234 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $313,750.