Homes for Sale in Concord, NC - Bilingual Realtor

Where Concord Is

Concord is in the north central part of Cabarrus County, which borders Mecklenburg County on the west. The Census Bureau's estimates list a Mecklenburg County part of the City with no residents from 2020 through 2025, so every resident it counts lives in the Cabarrus County part. The Cabarrus County Tax Office bills City of Concord property taxes.

City limits and Concord addresses

A Concord mailing address doesn't mean a home is inside the City. City planning assigns addresses inside city limits and in the parts of Cabarrus County within the City's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). In the Census Bureau's 2020 data, ZIP Code Tabulation Area 28025 also covers land in Harrisburg, Kannapolis, Midland and Mount Pleasant, 28027 covers parts of Harrisburg and Kannapolis, and both include land in no town at all.

The City's Street Listing, dated 6/29/2026, shows every street name and address range inside city limits. Frank Liske Park shows why it matters: the Cabarrus County park is at 4001 Stough Road, Concord, but the listing's in-city range for that part of Stough Road covers even numbers only. Owners outside the City can petition to have their property annexed.

City Utilities

The City owns and operates electric, water, stormwater and wastewater utilities. Concord is also a member of the Water and Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County, which runs a regional wastewater treatment plant. Outside city limits, extending Concord water and sewer starts with an application to the City. I haven't found an official map of which addresses get City electric service, so I can confirm each home's electric, water and sewer providers before you make an offer.

Zoning and Permits

Inside city limits, zoning follows the Concord Development Ordinance (CDO), first adopted in 2000. The City's Planning & Zoning Commission hears and decides rezoning requests, special use permits and site plans. Construction applications go in once, through the City's Accela portal: the City reviews zoning and Cabarrus County reviews building.

The CDO's base residential standards:

• RE (Rural Estate): up to one dwelling unit per acre; minimum lot 43,560 square feet.
• RL (Residential Low Density): up to two per acre; minimum lot 20,000 square feet.
• RM-1 (Residential Medium Density): up to three per acre; minimum lot 15,000 square feet.
• RM-2 (Residential Medium Density): up to four per acre; minimum lot 10,000 square feet.
• RV (Residential Village): up to eight per acre; minimum lot 7,500 square feet.
• RC (Residential Compact): townhouses, duplexes and apartments among other types, up to 15 per acre unless the CDO provides otherwise; minimum lot 5,000 square feet.

In RE, RL, RM-1 and RM-2, duplex rules and alternative single-family lot patterns can allow smaller lots under certain conditions. In RV and RC, multi-family and single-family attached developments are not held to the minimum lot size. Before you plan changes, I can check the lot's district on the zoning map linked from the City's GIS page.

Accessory dwellings

Where the CDO's Use Table permits them, a lot with a single-family detached home can have one accessory dwelling or accessory apartment. It can be no larger than half the main home's livable area or 1,100 square feet of gross floor area, whichever is less, and it generally must sit behind the main house.

Historic districts

The City says the North and South Union Street historic districts were established in 1982. Both are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Edgewood, designated in 1988, is a local district. In these three districts, exterior work such as building, altering, moving or demolishing a structure needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, even when no building permit is required. Interior work is exempt. An application must be filed at least 28 days before a regularly scheduled Historic Preservation Commission meeting to be heard there, and a demolition can be delayed up to 365 days.

The Logan Neighborhood was listed in the National Register on Dec 29, 2025, but it is not one of the three districts, so for a home there I can ask City planning which reviews apply.

Property Taxes in Cabarrus County

The Cabarrus County Tax Office bills and collects City of Concord property taxes, on one bill showing both City and County amounts. For the fiscal year July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027, the County lists rates per $100 of value of 0.576 for Cabarrus County and 0.42 for the City of Concord. Its table also lists a Concord Downtown rate of 0.16, which applies only to property in the City's downtown Municipal Service District, on top of the City rate. Under state law (G.S. 105-360), property taxes are due and payable on September 1.

Assessed values are meant to reflect true market value as of the effective date (January 1, 2024). The County sets real property values every four years, and its FY 2027 budget message says FY29 includes a revaluation year. When you compare homes, I can pull each parcel's latest tax bill.

Homes and Neighborhoods

Union Street, downtown's main street, was named when Concord was founded. The City's history says the first cotton mill was organized in 1839, north of the town limits, and that Concord became a major textile center in the late 1800s, when John Odell, James Cannon and Warren Coleman established mills. A December 31, 1995 annexation of 13.75 square miles brought residential areas along Weddington Road, Poplar Tent Road and NC 73 into the City.

Older homes near downtown

National Register nominations describe Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and bungalow homes in the North and South Union Street districts. The Logan Neighborhood Historic District, south of downtown, has frame houses and Craftsman, Minimal Traditional and Ranch styles, with platted subdivisions dating from 1904 through 1946. Before its Coleburg plat was laid out, the area was already called Coleburg, for rental houses and land owned by Warren Clay Coleman.

Subdivisions inside city limits

Streets in Afton Village, Christenbury Farms, Moss Creek, Edison Square, Winding Walk and Cannon Run appear on the City's in-city-limits Street Listing. City Council records say Afton Village began construction in the 1990s, and City planning staff have cited Afton Village and Christenbury Village as examples of rear-loaded townhomes with alley access.

I don't post price ranges here, because they go out of date quickly. I can pull recent sales for the streets or subdivisions you're considering. If you're looking at a new home, my guide to new construction around Charlotte covers what to ask.

Getting Around

Cabarrus County places Concord about 18 miles northeast of the City of Charlotte. Concord lies along the I-85 corridor, with six interchanges in the City, and the City reports that the I-85 project from NC 73 to the 29-601 Connector in Rowan County is complete. US 29, US 601, NC 49 and NC 73 also serve the city. The George Liles Parkway extension links US 29 directly to I-85, and I-485 adds another direct route to I-77.

Road projects

• NC 73: NCDOT plans to widen a 14-mile stretch from two to four lanes, between NC 115 and US 29 (Concord Parkway North). For the part from Davidson-Concord Road to US 29, which includes the Cabarrus County section, it says no schedule for right of way, utilities or construction has been finalized.
• Union Cemetery Road: in February 2026, NCDOT awarded a $14 million contract to realign it to meet US 29/Rock Hill Church Road. NCDOT expects the roadway work to be finished in late fall 2027.

Transit and airports

Rider Transit serves Concord and Kannapolis with bus service seven days a week, and its eight routes leave from the Rider Transit Center at 45 Transit Court NW. Its CCX route runs past Charlotte Motor Speedway to the JW Clay LYNX Station. The City is home to Concord-Padgett Regional Airport, where Allegiant and Avelo offer direct flights, and the county visitor bureau lists Amtrak's Kannapolis Train Station for rail.

Parks and Places

The City says Charlotte Motor Speedway and Concord Mills are in Concord. The Speedway, on Concord Pkwy. South, was built in 1959. Concord Mills is off I-85 at exit 49, and the City's history says the Mills Corporation opened its mall on I-85 in 1999.

Downtown Concord is a North Carolina Main Street community, and its new streetscape, completed in 2025, includes 22 foot wide sidewalks. The City lists the Concord Museum and the Cabarrus Arts Council, which runs the Davis Theatre and The Galleries, at the Historic Courthouse, 65 Union Street S. Old Courthouse Theatre, a community theatre founded in 1976, is on Spring Street NW. Atrium Health Cabarrus, a regional 457-bed hospital, and Barber-Scotia College, established in 1867 as Scotia Seminary, have Concord addresses.

• The McEachern Greenway runs 2.2 miles along Three-Mile Branch, through McGee Park to Les Myers Park, home of the Frank Dusch Amphitheater.
• The Hector H. Henry II Greenway follows the Rocky River and connects to the Moss Creek neighborhood.
• Frank Liske Park, a Cabarrus County park, opened in June 1982.

Concord voters approved a $60 million parks bond in November 2022. Caldwell Park reopened on July 14, 2026 with the City's first splash pad, and construction of David Phillips Park on Burrage Road began on July 9, 2026.

Schools

Cabarrus County Schools enrolls students at the CCS school assigned to their home address. Assignments change: in February 2024 the school board approved new boundaries for the 2024-25 school year. Before you rely on an assignment, check the address with the district's Find My School locator.

Buying or Selling in Concord

North Carolina's Residential Property Disclosure Act, G.S. Chapter 47E, covers sales of homes with one to four dwelling units, subject to the exemptions in G.S. 47E-2. Unless the sale is exempt, the owner owes the buyer a residential property disclosure statement and an owners' association and mandatory covenants disclosure statement (G.S. 47E-4), plus a mineral and oil and gas rights mandatory disclosure statement (G.S. 47E-4.1). The first sale of a dwelling never inhabited is exempt from 47E-4 but not from 47E-4.1.

In the City's Airport Overlay District, CDO 9.9.8 also requires owners and their agents to give buyers a written notice that the property is subject to aircraft over flights and to aircraft noise. Before you make an offer, I can check city limits, zoning, historic and airport overlay districts, utility providers and NCDOT projects. When you sell, I can gather the same records early, in English or Korean.

Sources

• U.S. Census Bureau: City and Town Population Totals, Vintage 2025, North Carolina (CSV)
• U.S. Census Bureau: 2020 ZCTA to 2020 Place Relationship File (national)
• Cabarrus County: FY 2027 Adopted Budget, Introduction and Profile of Cabarrus County
• Cabarrus County: FY 2027 Adopted Budget, Budget Message
• Cabarrus County: FY 2027 Adopted Budget, Budget Summary
• City of Concord: Economic Development, Community Profile
• City of Concord: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (PDF)
• City of Concord: Historic Facts
• City of Concord: History and Background of the City of Concord (PDF)
• City of Concord Planning & Development Services: Addressing
• City of Concord: Official Street Listing (PDF)
• City of Concord Planning & Development Services: Annexations
• City of Concord Finance: Tax Collections
• City of Concord: Downtown Concord (Downtown Municipal Service District)
• City of Concord Engineering: Utility Availability
• City of Concord: Development Ordinance
• City of Concord: Planning & Zoning Commission
• City of Concord Planning & Development Services: Permits
• City of Concord Planning & Development Services: GIS
• City of Concord: Concord Development Ordinance, Article 7, Base Zoning Districts (PDF)
• City of Concord: Concord Development Ordinance, Article 8 (PDF)
• City of Concord: Concord Development Ordinance, Article 9 (PDF)
• City of Concord: Historic Districts
• Cabarrus County Tax Administration: Tax Rates
• Cabarrus County Tax Administration: Real Estate Appeals
• NC General Statutes: G.S. 105-360, Due date; interest for nonpayment of taxes
• NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register nomination, North Union Street Historic District (PDF)
• NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register nomination, South Union Street Historic District (PDF)
• NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register nomination, Logan Neighborhood Historic District (PDF)
• City of Concord: City Council work session minutes, September 24, 2024 (PDF)
• City of Concord Planning: Townhome/Townhouse Development Regulations staff report, TA-12-21 (PDF)
• NCDOT: N.C. 73 Improvements (Mecklenburg & Cabarrus)
• NCDOT: Improvements Coming to Cabarrus County Intersection (Feb. 23, 2026)
• Rider Transit: About
• Rider Transit: CCX Route
• Explore Cabarrus (Cabarrus County CVB): Getting Here
• Concord-Padgett Regional Airport: FAQs
• Charlotte Motor Speedway: Track History
• Charlotte Motor Speedway: Contact
• Simon: About Concord Mills
• Downtown Concord: Home (NC Main Street community)
• Downtown Concord: Downtown Streetscape
• City of Concord: Museums, Galleries & Theaters
• Cabarrus Arts Council: Home
• Old Courthouse Theatre: Home
• Atrium Health: Atrium Health Cabarrus
• Barber-Scotia College: Home
• City of Concord Parks & Recreation: Parks
• City of Concord Parks & Recreation: Greenways
• Cabarrus County Parks: Frank Liske Park
• Cabarrus County: Frank Liske Park Barn Rebuild
• City of Concord: Concord Bonds
• City of Concord: Concord Bonds, July 2026 Update
• City of Concord: Concord Bonds, August 2026 Update
• Cabarrus County Schools: Enroll My Student
• Cabarrus County Schools: Realignment Resources 2024 (Find My School Locator Tool)
• WSOC-TV: Redrawn district boundaries approved by Cabarrus County School Board (Feb. 13, 2024)
• NC General Statutes: G.S. 47E-1, Applicability
• NC General Statutes: G.S. 47E-2, Exemptions
• NC General Statutes: G.S. 47E-4, Required disclosures
• NC General Statutes: G.S. 47E-4.1, Required mineral and oil and gas rights disclosures