State housing costs
Georgia housing costs, ownership, and rent in the latest ACS
Statewide evidence on home value, income, owner costs, housing stock, tenure, vacancy, and rent for borrower planning.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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Start with the dated local finding: Georgia's 2024 ACS housing baseline reports a median owner-occupied home value of $303,300, median household income of $77,353, and median selected monthly owner costs of $1,783 for owners with a mortgage. Those three reference points may help a borrower identify which statewide value, income, and recurring-cost assumptions need local replacement first. They remain separate medians, not the price, income, and monthly budget of one typical household, and the $1,783 measure is not a real-estate-tax figure or a current mortgage quote. For borrower planning, a real decision still needs local property evidence, borrower documentation, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, and current loan information.
In a borrower review centered on Georgia, read beside the 65.7% owner share and 34.3% renter share, the vacancy figure helps describe how the broad stock was classified without predicting near-term supply. Borrowers should use current listings, property condition, days on market, concessions, and local professional context to answer transaction questions that 10.3% and 4,541,835 were not designed to resolve.