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Moving to Apex, NC

Apex sits about 25 minutes from Raleigh. Its historic downtown runs along Salem Street, with antique shops, a stationer and a Saturday-morning farmers market at The Depot.

American Tobacco Trail: the 22-mile rails-to-trails path runs from downtown Durham south to Apex.
Jordan Lake: nearly 14,000 acres of water near Apex (NC State Parks).

See our Apex neighborhood guides for Scotts Mill, Bella Casa, Sweetwater, Abbington and Stillwater, or meet our Apex agents. Sweetwater, Abbington and Stillwater are all in west Apex: Sweetwater has its own town center on US 64, Abbington sits just south of US 64, and Stillwater is off Richardson Road.

Apex began as a stop on the railroad and became a town in 1873 (Town of Apex). Its name comes from the old rail line: the town sat at its highest point. The Depot is a Wake County landmark, and downtown Apex became a Historic District in 1994 (Town of Apex). Salem Street runs through the middle of downtown with shops and restaurants in older brick buildings (Explore Apex). Caul Group closed 52 homes in Apex in the last 12 months (Caul Group transaction records, Oct 2026).

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