Homes for Sale in Hickory, NC
Tree-lined historic neighborhoods, downtown lofts, and modern lake retreats — the heart of the Catawba Valley.
Active Homes for Sale in Hickory
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The Hickory market, measured — not guessed.
There are 350 residential listings on the market in Hickory, Catawba County, at a median asking price of $356,200, and recent sales took a median of 31 days to close.
What you can buy, by price
Share of the 24 most recent active listings in Hickory.
How many bedrooms are available
Share of the 24 most recent active listings in Hickory.
Common questions about buying in Hickory
- How much does a house cost in Hickory, NC?
- Across the 350 residential homes currently listed in Hickory, the median asking price is $356,200, with active listings running from $114,000 to $2,190,000. These figures come straight from the Canopy MLS feed and change as listings come and go.
- What are homes actually selling for in Hickory?
- 500 homes have closed in Hickory in the last 6 months at a median sold price of $315,500. Those sales closed at a median of 100% of asking price. Sold price is the number that matters when you are pricing your own home — asking prices only tell you what sellers hoped for.
- How long do homes take to sell in Hickory, NC?
- The median home that closed in Hickory over the last 6 months spent 31 days on the market. Half sold faster, half took longer — condition, price and time of year move this number more than anything else.
- What is the price per square foot in Hickory?
- Active listings in Hickory are asking a median of $190 per square foot, on a median home size of 1,808 square feet. Price per square foot is useful for comparing similar homes in the same area, but it breaks down across different lot sizes, ages and finish levels.
- Is it a buyer's or seller's market in Hickory?
- Hickory currently has about 4.2 months of inventory — 350 active listings against a recent pace of roughly 83.3 sales a month. As a rule of thumb the industry reads under six months as favouring sellers and over six as favouring buyers, but that is a guideline, not a verdict on any one house.
- Who can show me homes in Hickory?
- Any True North Realty broker can show you any listing in Hickory regardless of which company has it listed. We are a locally owned brokerage and a member of Canopy MLS — we do not sell your contact details to other agents, and the person who answers is the person you work with.
Where people actually buy in Hickory.
Hickory is not one market. Prices, housing stock and lot sizes change street by street, and the MLS search box will not tell you that. Here is how local brokers actually break the city down.
Viewmont
North Hickory along N Center Street and 29th Avenue NE. Largely mid-century brick ranches and split-levels on established lots, with scattered newer infill.
Kenworth
Just north of downtown off 4th Street NW. Early-to-mid 20th century homes on a compact grid, walkable to Union Square.
Oakwood Historic District
South of downtown around 3rd Avenue SW. Hickory's oldest concentration of turn-of-the-century architecture, with the largest lots and the widest price spread in the city.
Downtown / Union Square
Loft and condo conversions above the shopfronts, plus the small blocks feeding the City Walk. The city's only meaningful attached-housing inventory.
Mountain View
Unincorporated Catawba County south of the city toward Highway 127. A mix of 1990s–2010s subdivisions and larger acreage tracts.
St. Stephens
East Hickory along Springs Road toward Highway 70. Predominantly 1970s–2000s subdivisions on generous lots.
Longview
A separate incorporated town wrapped into west Hickory's fabric, off 1st Avenue SW. Smaller footprints and the city's most affordable entry points.
Moores Ferry
Northwest Hickory off 3rd Street NW toward the Lake Hickory shoreline. Large late-1980s to 2000s houses, mostly 3,300–5,600 sq ft, HOA, with a small number of attached homes; some lots are waterfront and most are not.
7 active Canopy MLS houses as of Aug 2026; the two arm's-length closings recorded since February 2026 were $550,400 and $749,900.
Catawba Springs
Northeast Hickory off Springs Road, built around a golf course with clubhouse, pool and walking trails. Housing runs from 1970s one-level homes to 2020s builds, plus a handful of unbuilt lots.
10 active Canopy MLS houses and 5 closings between 20 Feb and 17 Aug 2026. Vacant lots have listed separately from $18,000.
Lawsons Creek
Northeast Hickory around 30th Avenue Drive NE. A tight 2003–2007 subdivision of 3,000–3,900 sq ft one-and-a-half-story houses with an HOA.
3 active or pending Canopy MLS houses as of Aug 2026; one closing at $570,000 in March 2026.
Governors Harbour
Northwest Hickory off 8th Street Place NW. A small pocket of large late-1990s two-and-a-half-story houses on HOA lots near the Lake Hickory shoreline.
One active Canopy MLS listing and no recorded closings since February 2026 — too little inventory to state a range. Ask us for the full sales history.
Abingdon
Northeast Hickory off 26th Avenue NE. Deed-restricted 55+ attached townhomes built around 2005, one-level layouts, with a gated HOA carrying a clubhouse, pool and fitness room.
One active Canopy MLS townhome at $419,000 and no closings recorded since February 2026 — turnover here is too thin to publish a range.
Lake Hickory shoreline
North and west along the Catawba River impoundment. Waterfront, water-access and water-view homes price very differently from one another — the distinction matters more here than square footage.
True North brokers closed 181 Hickory sales between July 2023 and September 2026, from $70,000 to $2,550,000. Recorded in Canopy MLS — no testimonials, no rounded numbers.
Ask us for the current comparable sales on any street — we quote real Canopy MLS closings, never estimates.
Which districts serve Hickory.
Homes inside the Hickory city limits are served by Hickory Public Schools. Addresses with a Hickory mailing address that sit outside the city limits are generally served by Catawba County Schools, and a small number fall in Burke, Caldwell or Alexander county districts. Assignment is set by the district, not by us, and it can change — confirm the current assignment for a specific parcel with the district before you rely on it. We do not publish ratings or rankings.
What to know before you shop Hickory.
- Drive to Charlotte
- About 60 minutes via I-40 and I-85, or US-321 south.
- Drive to Asheville
- About 60 minutes west on I-40.
- Airport access
- Charlotte Douglas (CLT) is roughly 70 minutes; Hickory Regional serves general aviation.
- Major employers
- CommScope, Corning Optical Communications, Catawba Valley Medical Center, Frye Regional Medical Center, and the furniture and fiber-optic manufacturers across the Catawba Valley.
- Housing stock
- Heavily 1950s–1990s in the established neighborhoods; new construction concentrates outside the city limits toward Mountain View, Sherrills Ford and the Highway 16 corridor.
- Property taxes
- Catawba County levies a county rate plus a City of Hickory municipal rate for properties inside the city limits. Homes with a Hickory mailing address are often outside those limits and pay county only — confirm jurisdiction before budgeting.
Tax rates are set annually by Catawba County and the City of Hickory. Verify the current rate and the parcel's jurisdiction before relying on an estimate.
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What's actually happening in Hickory, NC.
Data pulled live from Canopy MLS · Updated 9/24/2026.
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