North Carolina in 1996 home price index and building permits for one year

FHFA annual index 1995 to 1996
Permits in 1996

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The FHFA annual house price index for North Carolina increased by 4.0% from 1995 to 1996. In the same years, the index for the United States increased by 3.2%. Building permits in the state authorized 66,997 housing units in 1996. 51,796 of the units are in buildings with one unit.

The FHFA HPI® is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The FHFA HPI® is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index, "What does the FHFA HPI® represent?". The site copied the text on 2 Oct 2026.

FHFA about the annual indexes of small areas: We use the all-transactions data but construct indexes on a yearly basis to provide data for very small geographic areas like counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts. FHFA FAQs, question 5

FHFA's name for the file of this index: Counties (Developmental Index; Not Seasonally Adjusted). FHFA revises earlier values of its index in each period: FHFA FAQs, question 13.

Annual index through 2025, from the FHFA release of 31 Mar 2026.

Counties in 1996

Counties of North Carolina in 1996, by name: change of the FHFA annual county index from 1995 to 1996, and housing units authorized in 1996
County	Index change	Units authorized	In buildings with 1 unit
Alamance County	+4.7%	614	614
Alexander County	−0.1%	127	127
Alleghany County	n/a	92	92
Anson County	n/a	33	33
Ashe County	+4.9%	154	154
Avery County	+5.0%	113	113
Beaufort County	+4.7%	157	157
Bertie County	n/a	28	28
Bladen County	−5.9%	80	80
Brunswick County	+5.6%	1,003	1,003
Buncombe County	+5.4%	882	882
Burke County	+4.0%	246	246
Cabarrus County	+3.2%	1,301	1,301
Caldwell County	+3.5%	369	369
Camden County	−2.7%	86	86
Carteret County	+6.2%	570	570
Caswell County	−1.7%	43	43
Catawba County	+3.4%	1,005	1,005
Chatham County	+5.1%	410	410
Cherokee County	n/a	273	273
Chowan County	+10.3%	8	8
Clay County	n/a	103	103
Cleveland County	+5.3%	378	378
Columbus County	+8.1%	44	44
Craven County	+1.8%	518	518
Cumberland County	+2.2%	1,301	1,301
Currituck County	−4.0%	351	351
Dare County	+2.7%	520	520
Davidson County	+4.0%	791	791
Davie County	+5.0%	264	264
Duplin County	+13.3%	121	121
Durham County	+4.1%	1,282	1,282
Edgecombe County	+4.9%	54	54
Forsyth County	+3.1%	1,388	1,388
Franklin County	+2.9%	312	312
Gaston County	+5.2%	673	673
Gates County	n/a	21	21
Graham County	n/a	41	41
Granville County	+1.7%	225	225
Greene County	n/a	27	27
Guilford County	+3.5%	3,036	3,036
Halifax County	+4.4%	75	75
Harnett County	+2.1%	751	751
Haywood County	+3.9%	379	379
Henderson County	+5.4%	600	600
Hertford County	+1.2%	30	30
Hoke County	+8.9%	271	271
Hyde County	n/a	18	18
Iredell County	+5.6%	1,196	1,196
Jackson County	n/a	318	318
Johnston County	+2.6%	1,133	1,133
Jones County	−1.1%	6	6
Lee County	+4.9%	202	202
Lenoir County	+4.9%	129	129
Lincoln County	+5.4%	373	373
Macon County	+1.0%	349	349
Madison County	n/a	125	125
Martin County	+3.5%	59	59
McDowell County	+0.7%	139	139
Mecklenburg County	+5.5%	6,341	6,341
Mitchell County	n/a	59	59
Montgomery County	n/a	111	111
Moore County	+4.4%	696	696
Nash County	+2.9%	396	396
New Hanover County	+6.4%	2,340	2,340
Northampton County	+6.9%	55	55
Onslow County	+1.9%	713	713
Orange County	+2.4%	691	691
Pamlico County	−2.2%	77	77
Pasquotank County	+5.2%	152	152
Pender County	+6.4%	287	287
Perquimans County	n/a	64	64
Person County	+0.7%	156	156
Pitt County	+3.0%	663	663
Polk County	+7.7%	134	134
Randolph County	+2.9%	549	549
Richmond County	+0.7%	291	291
Robeson County	+4.9%	187	187
Rockingham County	+3.7%	298	298
Rowan County	+5.6%	581	581
Rutherford County	+3.6%	239	239
Sampson County	+5.4%	124	124
Scotland County	+0.9%	103	103
Stanly County	+4.6%	190	190
Stokes County	+3.0%	184	184
Surry County	+5.3%	190	190
Swain County	n/a	90	90
Transylvania County	+5.1%	210	210
Union County	+5.1%	1,654	1,654
Vance County	+4.0%	100	100
Wake County	+3.2%	7,046	7,046
Warren County	+0.1%	92	92
Washington County	+4.7%	22	22
Watauga County	+6.7%	385	385
Wayne County	+3.4%	424	424
Wilkes County	+5.2%	203	203
Wilson County	+3.1%	287	287
Yadkin County	+2.9%	127	127
Yancey County	n/a	84	84

"n/a": FHFA has no county index value for one of the two years.

Building permits by year

Housing units authorized in North Carolina by year, 1995 to 2025

50,000

100,000

Units in buildings with 1 unit
Units in buildings with 2 or more units

Units for each year

Housing units authorized by building permits in North Carolina, by year
Year	All units	1 unit	2 or more units
2025	86,167	65,303	20,864
2024	95,163	70,047	25,116
2023	98,853	65,860	32,993
2022	94,118	65,183	28,935
2021	94,874	68,636	26,238
2020	80,474	60,505	19,969
2019	71,307	51,642	19,665
2018	71,691	51,248	20,443
2017	67,047	49,366	17,681
2016	60,550	43,675	16,875
2015	54,757	38,937	15,820
2014	49,911	35,051	14,860
2013	51,290	35,316	15,974
2012	48,692	29,945	18,747
2011	32,804	24,863	7,941
2010	33,889	26,047	7,842
2009	33,800	25,388	8,412
2008	54,652	39,082	15,570
2007	85,777	70,339	15,438
2006	99,979	82,672	17,307
2005	97,910	84,975	12,935
2004	93,077	77,147	15,930
2003	79,226	66,883	12,343
2002	79,824	66,400	13,424
2001	82,030	62,679	19,351
2000	78,376	59,061	19,315
1999	84,754	64,056	20,698
1998	80,514	62,389	18,125
1997	73,015	55,529	17,486
1996	66,997	51,796	15,201
1995	60,923	47,703	13,220

Sources: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price indexes for states and counties, release of March 31, 2026. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state and county files.