Caldwell Station

Caldwell Station sits in Cornelius, close enough to I-77 that Sam Furr Road and NC-73 shape how residents move around Lake Norman. Coming in, you pass near Birkdale Village before reaching the streets of houses and townhomes that make up the neighborhood. It sits between Cornelius and Huntersville, giving owners here easy reach to both town centers, to Davidson to the north, and to the lake itself at Jetton Park and Ramsey Creek Park. The neighborhood reads as one cohesive stretch of homes built within a short, defined window of time, rather than a patchwork of eras stitched together over decades.

The neighborhood holds about 560 lots in total, a mix of single-family houses, townhomes, and a handful of empty lots still unbuilt. For an owner here, that scale matters: this is not a small pocket of a dozen homes where one unusual sale skews the picture. It's large enough that recent sales and the broader mix of house sizes and lot types give a real read on where your own home sits, rather than leaving you to guess from a listing two towns over.

Caldwell Station carries about 560 lots, and most of them, roughly 523, have a house or townhome already built on them. The other 34 sit empty. That's a neighborhood large enough that when you go to sell, you're not being judged against three or four other homes — you're one of hundreds, which means buyers touring here have plenty to compare your house against before they make an offer.

Homes here were built between 2001 and 2013, with the typical house dating to 2005. That's a narrow window for a neighborhood this size — nearly all of it, 437 houses, went up in the 2000s, with another 40 following in the 2010s. A buyer walking through your house isn't comparing it to something from an older decade; they're comparing it to another Caldwell Station house built within a few years either side of yours, which keeps the comparison close and fair.

Lot sizes run from a tenth of an acre up to 1.88 acres, with the typical lot sitting around 0.15 acres. That's a townhome-scale lot for most of the neighborhood, but the spread up to nearly two acres means two houses on the same street can carry very different land value underneath a similar structure. If your lot sits toward the larger end, that's worth surfacing separately in a valuation rather than letting it blend into a per-square-foot number.

Houses here range from 1,024 square feet up to 3,317, with the typical home landing around 1,880 square feet. That's a wide enough range that a flat price-per-square-foot comparison across the whole neighborhood will mislead you in either direction — a compact townhome and a house near the top of that range aren't competing for the same buyer or the same price, even if they sold the same month.

The mix breaks down to 331 single-family houses and 162 townhomes, alongside 30 other properties and the 34 empty lots. Single-family houses make up the largest share, but townhomes are a meaningful second group here — about three in ten homes. If you're listing a townhome, your real competition is that group of 162, not the detached houses next door, and pricing strategy should follow that split rather than treating the neighborhood as one uniform product.

Twenty homes changed hands in Caldwell Station over the past year. Across a neighborhood of this size, that's a steady, unremarkable pace — not a flurry, not a stall. If your own home sits on the market longer than a neighbor's did last spring, that's not necessarily a signal; with only twenty sales spread across the year, timing varies house to house without meaning much on its own.

The middle sale price over that year was $339,000. That number is a useful anchor, but it doesn't tell you what your house is worth — it tells you where the middle of twenty sales landed, across a mix of townhomes and houses of very different sizes. Where your home sits relative to that figure depends on its square footage, its lot, and its age within that 2001-to-2013 window.

Sale prices ranged from $277,500 up to $550,000. That's a wide spread for one neighborhood, and it traces directly back to the mix described above — a smaller townhome and a larger single-family house on a bigger lot aren't going to sell anywhere near each other, even a street apart. The range itself is a reminder that Caldwell Station isn't one product; it's several, priced separately.

The most recent sale closed July 1, 2026. That's recent enough to matter in a valuation — it means the comparables available for your home reflect current conditions, not a stale market from a year ago. Because this count reflects deed transfers on record, it's a conservative floor on activity; the true number of transactions may run slightly higher.

The nearest interstate access is I-77 Exit 25 at Sam Furr Road and NC-73 in Huntersville, about 1.2 miles away as the crow flies. That proximity puts most of the corridor's shopping and commuting routes within easy reach without putting the interstate at your back door — close enough to matter, far enough to stay quiet on your own street.

Cornelius Town Hall sits about 2.1 miles away, and Huntersville Town Hall about 2.8 miles, so Caldwell Station sits almost evenly between the two town centers. Birkdale Village is closer still, about 1.7 miles away. The lake itself is reachable too: Ramsey Creek Park is about 2.8 miles out and Jetton Park about 3.1 miles, both straight-line distances to Lake Norman access points in Cornelius.

For the wider region, Davidson College sits about 3.7 miles away and Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center about 3.2 miles. Uptown Charlotte is roughly 15.2 miles as the crow flies, with Charlotte Douglas International Airport about 17.3 miles out — both reachable without leaving the I-77 corridor that runs past the neighborhood's closest exit.

If you're looking for a house built within a tight, recent window rather than something decades older, Caldwell Station's 2001-to-2013 range gives you a consistent style of construction to shop within. That consistency matters if you're comparing systems, finishes, and layouts across several houses — you're largely comparing homes built under similar codes and expectations, not stretching across eras.

The neighborhood suits a range of lot preferences. Most lots run small, around a tenth of an acre, which fits a buyer prioritizing a low-maintenance yard or a townhome over acreage. But lots run up to 1.88 acres, so if more land is the goal, that's available here too — worth flagging specifically when you search rather than assuming the whole neighborhood is townhome-scale.

For anyone weighing a shorter drive to I-77 or to Lake Norman's parks over a longer commute from farther out, Caldwell Station sits close to both. It also works for a downsizing move into a townhome — 162 of them here — or for someone wanting a single-family house with room to grow, given the square footage runs from just over 1,000 up to beyond 3,300.

• About 560 lots total, with roughly 523 built and 34 still empty
• Homes built between 2001 and 2013, typical year 2005
• Lot sizes range from 0.01 to 1.88 acres, typical lot about 0.15 acres
• House sizes range from 1,024 to 3,317 square feet, typical size about 1,880
• 331 single-family houses and 162 townhomes make up the bulk of the neighborhood
• 20 homes sold in the past year, from $277,500 to $550,000, median $339,000