It’s still a largely blue collar town and has been hit very hard by offshoring. It’s still cheaper than Greensboro or Winston-Salem. A showplace home in Emorywood can be had for the price of a cottage in Greensboro’s Sunset Hills. High Point municipal taxes aren’t cheap, though. North High Point along US 68 heading up to the airport has grown and might as well be Greensboro. The rest of it is not doing well, other than the immediate area around HPU.
I saw a cottage for sale in Sunset Hills while I was walking for $360k. Greensboro’s prices are absurd. The house in Irving Park that my dad bought in 1974 for $48k is listed at $589k on Zillow. 2900 sq ft. It’s for sale BTW if you need a $600k house.