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Section 8 & HUD affordable housing across North Carolina
Browse 100 counties and 31 small towns and rural communities in North Carolina. Each page lists FY2024 Fair Market Rent for studio–4BR units, HUD income limits at 30/50/80% of AMI, and the housing authority that processes Section 8 vouchers locally.
How HUD housing data is organized in North Carolina
HUD publishes Fair Market Rent and income limits at the county or metropolitan area level, not the city level — so two towns inside the same North Carolina county will share the same FMR ceiling and the same income-eligibility brackets. That's why this directory leads with counties: the county page is the single most useful starting point for anyone navigating the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program in non-metro North Carolina.
Below you'll find every county in North Carolina, separated into rural / non-metro counties (where this site focuses) and larger or metro counties. After the county lists, scroll down for the alphabetized index of small towns and unincorporated communities we cover in this state.
Rural & non-metro counties (98)
Counties dominated by small towns, agricultural land, or unincorporated communities. These are the counties most commonly skipped by big-city apartment-search sites.
- Alamance County
- Alexander County
- Alleghany County
- Anson County
- Ashe County
- Avery County
- Beaufort County
- Bertie County
- Bladen County
- Brunswick County
- Buncombe County
- Burke County
- Cabarrus County
- Caldwell County
- Camden County
- Carteret County
- Caswell County
- Catawba County
- Chatham County
- Cherokee County
- Clay County
- Cleveland County
- Columbus County
- Craven County
- Cumberland County
- Currituck County
- Dare County
- Davidson County
- Davie County
- Duplin County
- Durham County
- Edgecombe County
- Forsyth County
- Franklin County
- Gaston County
- Gates County
- Graham County
- Granville County
- Greene County
- Guilford County
- Halifax County
- Harnett County
- Haywood County
- Henderson County
- Hertford County
- Hoke County
- Hyde County
- Iredell County
- Jackson County
- Johnston County
- Jones County
- Lee County
- Lenoir County
- Lincoln County
- Macon County
- Madison County
- Martin County
- McDowell County
- Mecklenburg County
- Mitchell County
- Montgomery County
- Moore County
- Nash County
- Northampton County
- Onslow County
- Orange County
- Pamlico County
- Pasquotank County
- Pender County
- Perquimans County
- Person County
- Pitt County
- Polk County
- Randolph County
- Richmond County
- Robeson County
- Rockingham County
- Rowan County
- Rutherford County
- Sampson County
- Scotland County
- Stanly County
- Stokes County
- Surry County
- Swain County
- Transylvania County
- Tyrrell County
- Union County
- Vance County
- Wake County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Watauga County
- Wayne County
- Wilkes County
- Wilson County
- Yadkin County
- Yancey County
Other counties (2)
Larger counties and metropolitan areas in North Carolina.
Small towns & communities in North Carolina (31)
- Aberdeen
- Aurora
- Belville
- Bolivia
- Butner
- Centerville
- Como
- Deep Run
- East Spencer
- Everetts
- Forest City
- Gibson
- Grimesland
- Hickory
- Indian Trail
- Kingstown
- Leggett
- Macclesfield
- McLeansville
- Mooresville
- Neuse Forest
- Oriental
- Plain View
- Red Springs
- Roseboro
- Sea Breeze
- Southern Pines
- Star
- Taylorsville
- Varnamtown
- Weddington