South · North Carolina · pop 254K
Winston-Salem, NC
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in NC, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,128 — covering estimated essentials here (about $978 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,740 left over.
Expect summer highs near 88°F, winter lows around 29°F, and about 217 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($240,000) is about 4.4× the median household income.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Winston-Salem fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,388/mo
Typical rent
$1,150/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,030/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,150/mo
- Median home value
- $240,000
- Median household income
- $55,000
- Population
- 254,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.2%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.2%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 720
- Property crime rate
- 3,000
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 88°F
- Avg. winter low
- 29°F
- Sunny days / year
- 217
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈10/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈60/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈5/yr
- Annual rain
- 43"
- Annual snow
- 7"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+12
- Int'l airport
- ≈25 mi
- Walkability
- 26/100
- Disaster risk
- 42/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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