Winston-Salem, NC · Forsyth County, NC · 26,499 properties with county records
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Kernersville 27284 is in Forsyth County, NC, part of the Winston-Salem Metro. The typical home value in Kernersville 27284 is $321,578 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 0.7% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 45 days, and 30% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Aug 31, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 2.9 months of supply, neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 27284 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Forsyth County's 15 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $279,442, so 27284 sits 15% above the county middle. Typical rent is $1,751 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, August 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 26,499 properties in 27284.
Headline value data through August 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 27284 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Aug 31, 2026, 27284 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 45 days with 2.9 months of supply.
What do homes in 27284 sell for?
The typical home value in 27284 is $321,578 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 0.7% in a year. County records put the median at about $176 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 27284?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 27284 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 27284 compare to Forsyth County?
27284's typical value of $321,578 compares with a middle value of $279,442 across Forsyth County's 15 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for August 2026.
Where does this 27284 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Seller's Market
DOM: 79d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)0
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)100
Buy vs Rent (15%)50
Cancellation Rate (10%)50
Days on Market (5%)75
Seller-favored market in 27284. Expect to pay at or near list price. Payment burden: 24.6% of median income. Median days on market: 79. Renting is approximately 35% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 16.2).
Buyer Caution
Seller's market. Be prepared to pay near list price.
Competitive market similar to 2021-2022 — limited inventory driving prices above fundamentals.
WARMINGBALANCED
Market is warming with rising prices. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers.
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Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Forsyth.
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
All sales (the headline median)
$633k
$266
10
100%
COUNTY · Forsyth, NC
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 27284.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Forsyth (93.1%) and Guilford (6.8%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Forsyth (93.1%)
Guilford (6.8%)
ZIP 27284→2 counties
12-Month Direction
-1Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
38· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
26.5%
affordable
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.4% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-08
Price-to-rent
15.3x
neutral
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation13
+65.5%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
2.9 mo
seller's market
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-08-31
Insurance Risk
45/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
3.9%
NC 3.5%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0845d ago
Poverty Rate
14.8%
NC 12.9%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$65,541
NC $71,866US $82,006
Near national averages
Cost of Living (RPP)
93.8
NC 93.8US 100.3
Lower than most U.S. counties
Home Value (ZHVI)$287,472
County data: BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
