Home values
Zillow ZHVI · middle tier · seasonally adjusted · 2025 to 2026
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The Atlanta housing pulse
Atlanta’s public indicators show a split market: modeled home values eased over the year while asking rents rose. Construction authorizations remain substantial, and payroll jobs edged down.
Compare matched year-over-year changes through Sep 2026. Bars start at zero and use the same scale within each measure.
Zillow ZHVI · middle tier · seasonally adjusted · 2025 to 2026
Zillow ZORI · rental-stock weighted · 2025 to 2026
Each Zillow series is indexed to January 2020 = 100. This removes the dollar scale so the metro paths can be compared. Focus the endpoints for the latest index values.
Source: Zillow Research. Zillow’s ZHVI methodology changed with its January 2023 release, so the earlier portion of the home-value path should be read with that break in mind. ZORI remains a listed-rent measure.
2025 residential units authorized by building permits. Structure mix is shown within each metro. These are authorizations, not starts, completions or net additions to occupied homes.
Census BPS · calendar 2025 · CBSA geography
2025 authorizations per 1,000 households · ACS households are 2025 estimates
Household-normalized permits adjust for market size, but are not a construction “adequacy” target.
Census currently publishes newer monthly CBSA estimates; this pipeline uses the latest common annual file available.
New-lease rents, vacancy, time on market and concessions describe different parts of the rental market. Values use Apartment List’s Atlanta metro series, with the observation month shown for each measure.
Apartment List · metro-level estimates
Separate series; percentage rates on a common percentage scale
Apartment List defines its concession rate as the share of properties advertising specials equivalent to at least one free month. Vacancy estimates emphasize professionally managed properties; neither is a census of all rental units.
ARC and Eviction Lab court-record data cover Atlanta’s five-county core. Filings can repeat for the same renter and do not measure informal displacement.
Monthly filings per 1,000 ACS 2025 renter households · filings summed across five counties
The denominator is a fixed 2025 renter-household estimate, so month-to-month movement reflects filing counts against a fixed population base. Sealed tract records may be included in the regional total but cannot be assigned to a county.
CES total nonfarm jobs, matched Sep 2026 to the same month a year earlier. Employment measures workplace jobs, not the number of employed residents.
BLS CES · same month in 2025 and 2026 · not seasonally adjusted
CES employment indexed to Jan 2021 = 100 · matched series through Sep 2026
The U.S. CES series can have a newer monthly observation; the matched local period is used here for like-month comparisons. Estimates can be revised.
ACS 2025 one-year estimates add household context. The whiskers show Census-published 90% margins of error for median household income.
ACS 2025 · dollars · estimates with 90% margin of error
Bars begin at zero; the capped lines show ± MOE, not a confidence interval for a metro comparison. Income measures total household income, not just wages.
ACS 2025 one-year estimates · Atlanta MSA
A simple comparison of typical values at a common U.S. mortgage rate. It makes the rate assumption visible; it is not a quote or an affordability score.
20% down · 30-year fixed · Freddie Mac PMMS
Payment = loan × r × (1+r)360 / ((1+r)360 − 1); loan = 80% of Zillow typical value, monthly r = annual rate / 12.
Boundaries vary. Census, BLS and Zillow metro names do not always align. FHFA reports Atlanta and Tampa as metropolitan divisions, so those HPI series are explicitly excluded from full-metro rankings.
Observation dates vary. Zillow is through ; ACS is ; permits are . FHFA HPI is quarterly and mortgage rates are weekly. Growth comparisons use matched periods.
Independent research. This is a public-data project inspired by housing research publications. It is not affiliated with or based on proprietary data from John Burns Research & Consulting.