South · North Carolina · pop 482K
Raleigh, NC
Strong 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 $1,275 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,443 left over.
Expect summer highs near 89°F, winter lows around 32°F, and about 213 sunny days a year.
The job market looks healthy: 3.2% unemployment and 2.9% job growth over the past year.
The Raleigh fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,685/mo
Typical rent
$1,500/mo
Home value ÷ income
5.2×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,420/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,500/mo
- Median home value
- $430,000
- Median household income
- $82,000
- Population
- 482,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.2%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.9%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 400
- Property crime rate
- 2,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 89°F
- Avg. winter low
- 32°F
- Sunny days / year
- 213
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈10/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈66/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈5/yr
- Annual rain
- 46"
- Annual snow
- 4"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+25
- Int'l airport
- ≈15 mi
- Walkability
- 31/100
- Disaster risk
- 46/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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