Cureton in Waxhaw: Homes, Schools, HOA and Taxes

Cureton in Waxhaw, North Carolina, is 725 home lots, 722 of them built, and 22 homes there sold through the MLS in the twelve months ending September 14, 2026. Nineteen were single-family houses with a median price of $725,000, and three were townhomes that closed between $340,000 and $353,000. Those are Canopy MLS closings I pulled myself on September 14, 2026, matched against Union County parcel records for every lot in the subdivision.

If Cureton is on your shortlist, read this before you tour it. You’ll get last year’s sale prices by section, the tax bill with all three lines on it (two of the three listing sheets I read had the city tax wrong), what the district’s own boundary map says about schools, what the HOA dues buy, and the two things I see buyers get wrong here: the tax bill, and the age of what’s on the roof and in the attic.

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What This Story Covers

• Is Cureton in Waxhaw worth a look?
• What $725,000 buys in Cureton, and what $340,000 buys
• Cureton has seven sections, and lot size depends on which one
• Why does a Cureton tax bill have three lines?
• What does the district map say about schools?
• What the HOA dues pay for
• Harris Teeter at the entrance, Ballantyne in 23 minutes
• Who does Cureton not suit?
• Frequently asked questions about Cureton in Waxhaw
• How we sourced this

Is Cureton in Waxhaw worth a look?

Yes, if you want a range of choices inside one neighborhood, and you go in knowing three things. Cureton is a 725-home neighborhood in Waxhaw, North Carolina, between Providence Road (NC-16) and Waxhaw-Marvin Road, built between 2005 and 2022, where townhomes sold in the low $300,000s and the largest houses closed at $1,000,000 and above in the past year. It’s inside Waxhaw town limits, it’s built out, and a grocery-anchored shopping center sits where its main road meets Providence Road. The three things to know: the tax bill has a line most listings leave off, the lots in the oldest section are small, and Providence Road traffic has no relief scheduled before 2029.

Cureton in Waxhaw by the numbers, with the document each figure comes from so you can check it yourself. Checked September 14, 2026.

Cureton in Waxhaw by the numbers, with the document each figure comes from. Checked September 14, 2026.

Measure	Figure	Source document
Home lots	725 (638 single-family, 87 townhomes), 722 built	Union County parcel records, dataset dated September 4, 2026
Years built	2005 to 2022; 38% in 2006 and 2007, 36% in 2012 to 2016	Union County parcel records
Closed sales, twelve months	22 (19 single-family, 3 townhomes)	Canopy MLS, pulled September 14, 2026
Single-family median price	$725,000 across 19 sales	Canopy MLS
Price per square foot, median	$215.94	Canopy MLS
Days on market, median (single-family)	41	Canopy MLS
For sale on September 14, 2026	10 active, 4 under contract	Canopy MLS
Property tax rate, FY 2026-27	77.55 cents per $100 (county 43.42, town 29.00, fire 5.13)	Union County 2026-2027 rate schedules; Town of Waxhaw FY26-27 adopted budget
HOA dues	$88 a month or $1,012 a year single-family; $290 a month townhomes	Three MLS listing sheets, September 14, 2026
School areas, 2026-27	Kensington Elementary; Cuthbertson Middle and Cuthbertson High	UCPS attendance boundary layers
GreatSchools ratings	8 of 10, 10 of 10, 9 of 10	GreatSchools, read September 14, 2026
Drive to Ballantyne	12.0 miles, 23 minutes at 4 p.m. on a Monday	Google Maps, September 14, 2026

Here’s what stopped me while I was pulling this. I opened three Cureton listing sheets in the MLS on September 14, and two of them had the city tax field wrong. One said no city taxes, one said Union, and only the third said Waxhaw. The county parcel record says Waxhaw plus the Waxhaw fire district on all 792 parcels recorded under the Cureton name: 725 home lots, 54 common areas and 13 commercial or exempt parcels. If you budgeted off the first two sheets, you’d be about $2,250 a year short on a home at the median county value. Budget off the county record, never the listing.

What $725,000 buys in Cureton, and what $340,000 buys

In Cureton, $725,000 was the median single-family closing over the twelve months ending September 14, 2026, and at that number you’re looking at a 2006 or 2007 house of roughly 3,000 to 3,150 square feet on a quarter-acre lot, per the 19 single-family sales in Canopy MLS. Across those 19 sales the medians were 3,148 heated square feet, $215.94 per square foot and 41 days on market. Nine of the 22 sales went under contract in under 30 days.

Prices ran from $450,000 to $1,175,000. Six houses closed under $600,000, four between $600,000 and $800,000, five between $800,000 and $1,000,000, and four at $1,000,000 and above. The bottom was a 2,402 square foot house at $450,000. The top was a 5,505 square foot house on 0.73 of an acre at $1,175,000, closed September 2, 2026. Same neighborhood, same streets, and one costs two and a half times the other.

Here’s what each band bought last year. From $450,000 to $590,000 you got a 2006 to 2009 house of 2,402 to 2,947 square feet with three or four bedrooms on 0.14 to 0.23 acres, and every one of those six was in Cureton 1. Everything that sold at $925,000 and up had 3,939 to 5,884 square feet. And no house built between 2013 and 2016 sold for less than $875,000, so if you want one of the newer ones, that’s where the budget starts.

By section, last year’s closings were: Cureton 1, ten sales from $450,000 to $815,000; Cureton 2, three from $925,000 to $1,000,000; Cureton 3, two at $875,000 and $895,000; Cureton 4, one at $690,000; Cureton 6, three from $1,000,000 to $1,175,000; the townhomes, three from $340,000 to $353,000. Cureton 5 had no closings in the window. The next section says which streets belong to which.

The three townhomes closed at $340,000, $342,500 and $353,000, all built in 2007 or 2008, all between 1,334 and 1,474 square feet. Three sales isn’t enough to call a median, so I won’t. A Cureton townhome has been a low to mid $300,000s purchase for a year, and the two on the market now are listed at $300,000 and $346,000.

Against Waxhaw as a whole? Our September price report put the in-town Waxhaw single-family median at $635,000 across 173 sales from June 8 to September 4, 2026. Cureton’s $725,000 is a different window and a much smaller sample, so all I’ll say is that Cureton sells above the town median, not how far above. It does so even without its four seven-figure sales: take those out and the median of the other 15 is $675,000.

One more number I’d want if I were you. For the 19 houses I could match to a county record, the median sale price was 1.042 times the county’s 2025 assessed value. Cureton homes sold about 4% over what the county says they’re worth, with a range from 16% under to 17% over. That makes the assessed value a fair floor for a first offer conversation and the right starting point for the tax math below.

Ten homes were for sale on September 14, 2026: 8 houses from $515,000 to $1,295,000 and 2 townhomes, plus 4 under contract between $735,000 and $1,000,000. Ten listings in a 725-home neighborhood is 1.4% of the stock. If you want a specific section or floor plan, you’ll likely wait for it.

Cureton has seven sections, and lot size depends on which one

The county assessor splits Cureton into seven sections, Cureton 1 through 6 plus Cureton Townhomes, and they differ in age, lot size and price, per Union County parcel records dated September 4, 2026. Knowing which section a listing sits in tells you more than the neighborhood name does. When someone says “Cureton is a 2006 neighborhood,” they’re describing one of the seven.

The street key: Cureton 1 is Whitehawk Hill Road, Soaring Eagle Lane, Collaroy Road, Scottcrest Way, Willow Branch Drive, Connells Point Avenue, Fairlight Drive and Bidwell Avenue. Whitehawk Hill Road and Collaroy Road continue into Cureton 2, alongside Chasbury Park Drive and Manorwyck Farms Drive. Cureton 3 is Caesars Head Drive, Bevis Lane, Dombey Street and Bee Ridge Court. Cureton 4 and 5 are both on Arsdale Road, with Chasemont Drive and Haveron Street in 4. Cureton 6 is McPherson Street, Carindale Road, Rochedale Place and Cecily Court. The townhomes are on Willow Branch Drive, Lynwood Square, Sunset Hill Road and Kemptown Square.

Put the build years together and you get two waves: 38% of the homes went up in 2006 and 2007, another 36% between 2012 and 2016. Three residential lots still have no structure on them. Everything else is done, which is why you won’t see a model home or a phase map here. What you see is what the neighborhood is.

The builders are on the deeds, if you know where to look. Nine companies appear as the original seller on Cureton lots that have never changed hands since: M/I Homes on 70, Meritage Homes on 22, Westfield Homes on 15, NVR (the parent of Ryan Homes) on 15, Ryland on 13, the Cunnane Group on 13, Classica Homes on 9, Bonterra Builders on 3, and Standard Pacific on 4 houses plus 13 townhomes. Those counts are floors, because most homes have resold and the county record only shows the most recent seller, so ask your agent to pull the deed history on any house you’re serious about.

Lot size sorts by section, so I built the table below. The median single-family lot is 0.253 acres and the smallest is 0.115; 53 lots are half an acre or more, up to 1.3 acres. All 154 lots under 0.16 acres are in Cureton 1, and 42 of the 53 half-acre-plus lots are in Cureton 2, which is why the county’s median value runs from $575,300 in one to $982,900 in the other. County records put the houses at 1,728 to 7,451 heated square feet, median 3,228, and the townhomes at 1,088 to 1,443; the MLS sheets for the three townhomes that sold said 1,334 to 1,474, and the two measurements rarely agree to the foot.

The seven sections of Cureton, from Union County parcel records dated September 4, 2026. County value is the median 2025 assessed value of the built lots in each section.

The seven sections of Cureton, from Union County parcel records dated September 4, 2026.

Section	Lots	Built	Median lot	Median county value
Cureton 1	288	2005 to 2011	0.156 acres	$575,300
Cureton 2	71	2007 to 2022	0.53 acres	$982,900
Cureton 3	75	2006 to 2015	0.303 acres	$905,100
Cureton 4	41	2006 to 2015	0.227 acres	$730,800
Cureton 5	56	2011 to 2014	0.248 acres	$626,200
Cureton 6	107	2006 to 2020	0.317 acres	$914,700
Cureton Townhomes	87	2007 to 2010	not applicable	$334,750

The land that isn’t houses matters too, because you’re paying dues to keep it up. Fifty-four parcels are recorded as common open space, 57.4 acres in all. Against the 287.7 acres recorded under the Cureton name, shopping center parcels included, that’s 20%. It’s the ponds, the walking paths, the pocket parks and the clubhouse grounds.

Why does a Cureton tax bill have three lines?

Because Cureton sits inside Waxhaw town limits and inside the Waxhaw fire protection district, so as a homeowner there you pay Union County, the Town of Waxhaw and the fire district, for a combined 77.55 cents per $100 of assessed value in fiscal year 2026-27. The county rate is 43.42 cents, the town rate is 29.00 cents and the fire tax is 5.13 cents, per the county’s 2026-2027 tax rate and fire district schedules and the town’s adopted budget. On the $659,150 median county value of a Cureton single-family home, that’s $5,112 a year.

Here’s how the county’s 43.42 cents breaks down for you, per the county’s 2026-2027 rate schedule, into 11.24 cents general fund, 1.06 cents county debt, 26.78 cents education operating, 3.89 cents education debt and 0.45 cents economic development. The county announced its $664,310,307 budget on June 17, 2026 and kept the rate flat; Chairman Brian Helms said in the announcement that “just 12.75 cents of the tax rate funds the wide range of County services our residents rely on every day.”

The town’s 29 cents comes from ordinance ORD2026009 in the Town of Waxhaw FY 2026-27 adopted budget, which “maintains the current property tax rate of $0.29 per $100 of assessed valuation.” Waxhaw also charges a $25 vehicle tag fee, and the town’s tax page confirms Union County bills and collects the town’s share, so you’ll see every line on one county bill.

The fire line is the one that goes missing. Union County publishes a separate 2026-2027 fire district schedule, and Waxhaw Fire Tax is 5.13 cents per $100. The county parcel record for every one of the 792 Cureton parcels lists the tax district as “WAXHAW, WAXHAW FIRE TAX.” Our Waxhaw versus Weddington comparison quotes the county-plus-town figure of 72.42 cents, which is right as far as it goes; add the fire district and a Cureton owner is at 77.55.

At the $659,150 median county value, that’s $5,112: $2,862 county, $1,912 town and $338 fire district. At $725,000, the twelve-month median sale price, it’s $5,622. Your bill runs off the county’s assessed value from the 2025 revaluation, not off what you pay, and on a typical Cureton sale last year the county value ran about 4% below the price paid.

If you’re choosing between a 2006 house in Cureton 1 and a 2014 house in Cureton 5, ask about the roof and both HVAC systems before you ask about the kitchen. A 2006 roof is old enough that I’d want a replacement date in writing, and the difference between a new roof and an original one is real money that never shows up in the listing photos. The kitchen you can see. The roof you have to ask about.

What does the district map say about schools?

Union County Public Schools’ own attendance boundary data for the 2026-27 school year places Cureton addresses in the Kensington Elementary area and the Cuthbertson secondary area, which the district’s cluster page lists as Cuthbertson Middle and Cuthbertson High. I ran a Cureton address through the boundary layers behind the district’s “What School Do I Attend?” tool on September 14, 2026, and that’s what came back. You should run your own exact address before you write an offer, because the district publishes new boundary maps each year and an assignment that held for the last owner isn’t a promise to you.

GreatSchools’ ratings on September 14, 2026: it rates Kensington Elementary 8 out of 10 (897 students, grades K to 5, at 8701 Kensington Drive), Cuthbertson Middle 10 out of 10 (1,320 students, grades 6 to 8, at 1520 Cuthbertson Road) and Cuthbertson High 9 out of 10 (1,826 students, grades 9 to 12, at 1400 Cuthbertson Road).

GreatSchools now shows Kensington at 8, not the 9 you’ll see repeated on older agent sites, and Cuthbertson High at 9, not 10. It updates its ratings, so read them on the day you care about them.

Kensington Elementary is 1.7 miles away by the neighborhood’s own road. It sits on Kensington Drive, which runs from the Cureton Town Center into the neighborhood, about 6 minutes from the shopping center by Google Maps. The middle and high schools are on Cuthbertson Road, and so is the county’s Southwest Regional Library.

What the HOA dues pay for

Cureton’s master HOA dues, roughly $1,000 a year for a single-family home, buy a clubhouse “just off Providence Road,” a community pool with a water slide and an infant pool, an exercise studio, a playground, a bocce court, and the ponds, bridges, pocket parks and walking paths that connect the sections, per the Cureton Master HOA site, which FirstService Residential runs. The HOA’s own words: “distinct neighborhoods all connecting by walking paths, ponds, bridges, and pocket parks.” The association was incorporated in 2004.

The dues themselves ran $88 a month on one listing and $1,012 a year on another when I read the MLS sheets on September 14, 2026, so roughly $1,000 to $1,060 a year for a house. Townhome owners pay $290 a month, and the listing sheet doesn’t say what that covers. The HOA site counts 638 homes, which matches the single-family count, so ask whether the townhome dues include the master association and pool access, and what else they cover.

Two things I’d check before you rely on any of that. Ask the association for the current reserve study and the last two years of financials, because a 2004 association with a pool and a slide is old enough to be replacing things. And get the townhome dues and what they cover in writing, since $290 a month is a meaningful line on a $340,000 purchase. For comparison, Hunter Oaks across town ran $64 to $83 a month on its September 6, 2026 listings.

Harris Teeter at the entrance, Ballantyne in 23 minutes

Cureton Town Center at 8157 Kensington Drive is a Harris Teeter-anchored shopping center at the corner of Kensington Drive and Providence Road, and Google Maps timed the drive from that corner to Ballantyne Corporate Place at 12.0 miles and 23 minutes via Waxhaw-Marvin Road when I checked at about 4 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2026. Uptown Charlotte (Trade and Tryon) was 28.0 miles and 49 minutes. Charlotte Douglas airport was 29.5 miles and 45 minutes. Waxhaw’s Downtown Park on Givens Street was 2.7 miles and 7 minutes down NC-16.

The shopping center has a paper trail. Phillips Edison bought it in January 2012 for $13.9 million, per its SEC filing, and its July 2018 expansion brought the center to 84,357 square feet and added Dunkin’, Jersey Mike’s, East Coast Wings + Grill, Elegant Brow & Spa and Fitness Together, per Shopping Center Business. The owner’s property page lists it as fully leased today.

More is coming to the corner. The Town of Waxhaw’s developer projects page shows an approved by-right plan for a Chase Bank next to the Truist branch, and a project called Cuthbertson Crossing, north of Kensington Drive, for a restaurant, coffee shop, car wash and oil change facility, now at the pre-construction meeting stage. MPV Properties is also marketing a Cureton Town Center Phase II on South Providence Road with 1,200 to 7,500 square foot retail and medical spaces, as of September 14, 2026.

Then there’s the road. NC-16, the Providence Road you’ll use for almost every trip north, hasn’t been widened through here yet, and the project to make it a four-lane divided road between Rea Road and Waxhaw Parkway is NCDOT project U-5769. NCDOT’s project page, updated May 6, 2026, lists construction beginning in 2029. The Town of Waxhaw’s traffic projects page lists 2030 for construction and 2035 for completion, with design 25% complete. Both sources say the dates can change. Neither says before 2029.

Who does Cureton not suit?

Cureton doesn’t suit you if you want land, and it doesn’t suit you if you want a house nobody has lived in. The median lot is a quarter acre and the smallest single-family lots in Cureton 1 are 0.115 acres, so the yards in the original section are modest. If a half acre is your floor, only 53 of 638 lots clear it, 42 of them in Cureton 2, and the three half-acre-plus lots that sold in the past year closed between $925,000 and $1,175,000. Our piece on who Waxhaw doesn’t suit covers the town-wide version of this.

The HOA is not optional. Dues are mandatory and the covenants are recorded. That’s the deal that keeps the ponds clean and the pool open, and some buyers would rather keep the $1,000 a year and the freedom.

Providence Road traffic is real, and the widening isn’t scheduled to break ground before 2029. Google’s preferred afternoon route to Ballantyne, Waxhaw-Marvin Road to Marvin Road, took 23 minutes on the day I checked, and I’d drive it at your own commute hour before you decide. What Cureton gives you in return is a shopping center you can walk to, an elementary school 1.7 miles down the neighborhood’s own road, and a pool and clubhouse you’ll pay for whether you use them or not.

Then the age question. Thirty-eight percent of Cureton was built in 2006 and 2007, which means roofs, water heaters and HVAC systems old enough that I’d ask for replacement dates on all three unless a prior owner already did the work. That, and the third line on the tax bill, are the two things I see buyers get wrong here, and neither shows up in the listing photos.

The reason people keep choosing it anyway is choice. In one neighborhood you can buy a $340,000 townhome or a $1,175,000 house, walk to the same grocery store, and be in the same school areas. That’s why I’d put Cureton on a first-weekend tour of Waxhaw for almost anyone with a budget between the low $300,000s and $1,200,000.

Frequently Asked Questions About Cureton in Waxhaw

What is the Cureton community in Waxhaw, NC?

Cureton is a 725-home master-planned neighborhood inside Waxhaw town limits, between Providence Road (NC-16) and Waxhaw-Marvin Road, with 638 single-family homes and 87 townhomes built between 2005 and 2022 across seven sections, per Union County parcel records dated September 4, 2026. It’s got a clubhouse, pool, fitness studio, walking paths and ponds, and the Harris Teeter-anchored Cureton Town Center sits at Kensington Drive and Providence Road.

What property types are available in Cureton?

Cureton has 638 single-family houses of 1,728 to 7,451 heated square feet and 87 townhomes of roughly 1,100 to 1,450 square feet, per Union County parcel records dated September 4, 2026. The largest houses and lots are in the Cureton 2 and Cureton 6 sections, and the smallest lots are in Cureton 1. Only 3 of the 725 lots were vacant on that date, so there’s no active builder and no new construction to speak of.

What schools serve Cureton in Waxhaw?

Union County Public Schools boundary data for 2026-27 places Cureton addresses in the Kensington Elementary area and the Cuthbertson Middle and Cuthbertson High cluster, checked September 14, 2026. GreatSchools rated them 8, 10 and 9 out of 10 on the same date. Confirm your exact address with the district lookup tool before you buy, because boundaries change and a neighborhood name isn’t an assignment.

Which Cureton section has the biggest lots?

Cureton 2, where the median lot is 0.53 acres and where 42 of the 53 half-acre-plus lots in the neighborhood sit, per Union County parcel records dated September 4, 2026. Cureton 6 and Cureton 3 follow at 0.317 and 0.303 acres. Cureton 1, the original 288-lot section, has a median lot of 0.156 acres, and it’s where every lot under 0.16 acres sits.

Is Cureton in Mecklenburg County or Union County?

Union County, inside the Town of Waxhaw limits and the Waxhaw fire protection district, per Union County parcel records. It’s not Mecklenburg. For fiscal year 2026-27 that means 43.42 cents county, 29.00 cents town and 5.13 cents fire district, a combined 77.55 cents per $100 of assessed value, or $5,112 a year on the $659,150 median county value of a Cureton house.

How far is Cureton from Ballantyne and Uptown Charlotte?

From Cureton Town Center, Google Maps timed Ballantyne Corporate Place at 12.0 miles and 23 minutes and Uptown Charlotte at 28.0 miles and 49 minutes at about 4 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2026. Charlotte Douglas airport was 29.5 miles and 45 minutes; downtown Waxhaw was 2.7 miles and 7 minutes. Test your own commute at the hour you drive, and note the NC-16 widening isn’t scheduled to start before 2029.

About the Author

Steve Jarrell is the team lead of The Longleaf Group, a team at eXp Realty he co-leads with his wife Amanda. He lives in Weddington, works Waxhaw and the rest of South Charlotte every week, and films the Living in South Charlotte YouTube channel, including the Cureton driving tour above. Before real estate he joined VisualTour as President, led its rebrand to Paradym and its 2020 acquisition by Constellation Software.

The Longleaf Group is an eXp ICON Team with 140+ five-star Google reviews. If you’d like the county record, the school lookup and the last twelve months of sales run for a specific Cureton address, call 704-774-7170 or email steve@jarrellhomes.com.

How we sourced this

Home counts, sections, build years, lot sizes, assessed values, builders on deeds and tax districts come from Union County parcel records for the 792 parcels recorded under the Cureton subdivision, dataset dated September 4, 2026; the county’s own viewer is Union County GISWeb. Sales, days on market, inventory and HOA dues come from Canopy MLS Matrix, pulled by Steve Jarrell on September 14, 2026, for closings in the prior 365 days and listings active that day.

Tax rates come from Union County’s 2026-2027 tax rate and fire district schedules and the Town of Waxhaw FY 2026-27 adopted budget. School areas come from the district’s 2026-27 boundary layers; ratings from GreatSchools on September 14, 2026. Drive times are Google Maps at about 4 p.m. Eastern the same day. The road schedule comes from NCDOT’s U-5769 page (updated May 6, 2026) and the Town of Waxhaw traffic projects page, which disagree by a year, so both are quoted.

What I dropped: the name of the master developer, because I couldn’t confirm it in a primary document; the HOA site’s “approx 30 miles south of Uptown” line, because Google Maps measured 28.0; and any town-wide comparison tighter than “above the median,” because the two samples cover different windows. The featured image is an illustrative aerial of a Piedmont neighborhood, not a photograph of Cureton.

Last updated: September 15, 2026