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Douglas County, GA

FIPS 13097 · population 147,888 · part of Atlanta, GA

$305k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
Direct county rent answer

What does rent cost in Douglas County, GA?

The latest county-level Zillow ZORI is $1,765 per month in 2026-06. It is a typical asking-rent index across rental types—not an arithmetic average, signed lease or quote for one property.

County Zillow ZORI$1,7652026-06 · up 0.3% year over year
County ACS gross rent$1,570ACS 2024 5-year · occupied-renter survey
HUD two-bedroom FMR$1,820FY2026 · administrative standard
HUD Fair Market Rent by bedroom count in Douglas County
BedroomsHUD monthly FMRGeographyMeasurement boundary
Studio$1,585Douglas County, GAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
1 bedroom$1,660Douglas County, GAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
2 bedrooms$1,820Douglas County, GAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
3 bedrooms$2,182Douglas County, GAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
4 bedrooms$2,605Douglas County, GAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.

Zillow asking rent, ACS gross rent and HUD FMR describe different housing universes. They remain separate and no metro, city or neighboring-county value replaces missing county evidence.Zillow pulled 2026-07-26 · HUD pulled 2026-07-26

The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$305k
▼ 3.3% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$1,765
▲ 0.3% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
7.0%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,820
market rent is 0.97x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+59.8%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−3.3%FHFA HPI2025−2.0%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-08-02.
Owner-reported value$297k
Surveyed gross rent$1,570
Rent burden 30%+50.4%
Median year built1996
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
7.3%vacant
56,187estimated housing units
Occupied tenure33.1% renter
owner 66.9%renter 33.1%
Structure mix79.4% single-family
Single-family 79.4%20+ units 4.8%Mobile home 4.5%Other 11.2%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs49,832▼ 2.3% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments3,490annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,135▲ 1.9% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities41.3% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS−2.3%WEEKLY WAGE+1.9%Trade, transportation, and utilities41.3%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-08-02. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

Resident income

How local income has compounded

BEA per-capita personal income divides all personal income by the county population. It is broader than wages, but it is not household income or a measure of what renters can afford.

Per-capita personal income19692024
Per-capita personal income history for Douglas CountyA line chart of annual BEA per-capita personal income from 1969 through 2024.$0k$25k$50k196919972024$3k$48k
Nominal annual dollars; not adjusted for inflation. A rising line can reflect wage, business-income, transfer-income and investment-income changes together.
Renter affordability

Who carries the heaviest rent burden

HUD CHAS separates renter households by income relative to local HAMFI. Moderate burden means housing costs above 30% through 50% of income; severe burden means more than 50%.

Share of renter households in each income band2018-2022
Renter cost burden by HAMFI income band in Douglas CountyFive horizontal bars show moderate and severe housing cost burden shares among renter households in each HUD income band.0%25%50%75%100%At or below 30% HAMFI3,84572.0% burdened30–50% HAMFI2,78085.4% burdened50–80% HAMFI4,47544.9% burdened80–100% HAMFI2,2059.8% burdenedAbove 100% HAMFI3,9450.4% burdened
Moderate: >30% to 50%Severe: >50%
Each percentage uses HUD’s published subtotal for that income band. For disclosure, HUD keeps 0 as 0, publishes 1–7 households as 4 and rounds 8 or more to the nearest 5. Independently rounded categories can differ from their displayed sum and are not forced into a percentage.
Direct local rental evidence

Recent leases and rental-market liquidity in Douglas County, GA

These Apartment List observations match the exact county Census code 13097. They are kept separate from Zillow asking rent, Census occupied-home rent and wider metro measures.

Direct recent-lease rent history

Monthly overall-rent index; missing observations are not filled from another geography.

$1,480$1,409$1,3382021-082026-07
Recent-lease rent$1,3862026-07 · -1.4% year over year
Rental vacancyn/an/a
Time on marketn/an/a
County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Douglas County presents a yield-versus-softness question: a cautious cash-flow underwriter should investigate expense durability before treating income return as protection against weaker pricing. Zillow’s county measure labeled 2026-06 puts median home value at $304,683, down 3.3% year over year. FHFA’s annual 2025 repeat-transaction HPI also declined, corroborating direction but neither supplying a home value nor sharing Zillow’s vintage or method; the rates cannot be combined.

02Housing economics

Measured median asking rent is $1,765 per month, supporting the supplied gross yield of 6.95% before vacancy, debt, insurance, repairs, or taxes. This is market rent, whereas HUD’s two-bedroom FMR is a payment standard, not a rent estimate, and cannot set yield. The 0.75% effective property-tax rate makes carrying costs a parcel-level verification item. Operating expenses, insurance quotes, financing terms, and rent distribution are not published; their absence prevents a net-yield or affordability conclusion.

03Demand & competition

In the 2026-06 Realtor.com MLS listing market, active listings rose 9.32%, and 21.97% of listings had price reductions. These are asking-price, visible-supply, and seller-concession measures, not closed-sale prices or standalone proof of buyer demand. Net migration was positive, yet average income for movers in trailed movers out by $3,926, limiting what the count says about incoming purchasing power. Investor mortgages represented 7.12% of the 1,881 recorded purchases; that establishes non-occupant participation, not cash-buyer activity or competition for any specific property.

04Risk & next checks

QCEW’s 2025 annual covered employment at county workplaces declined 2.30%; it is not resident employment, unemployment, or a forecast. Trade, transportation, and utilities is the largest disclosed private supersector, not the whole economy. Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled building-value loss is 0.09% annually; this is modeled exposure, not an observed claim result. Next checks are parcel flood maps and elevation, insurance quotes, operating statements, lease rent comparables, and closed-sale comparables.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Douglas County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Douglasville city37.5KVilla Rica city*18.6KLithia Springs CDP16.9KAustell city*8.4KFairplay CDP1.9K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

5 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Douglasville cityIncorporated place
    37,536
  2. 02
    Villa Rica cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    18,551
  3. 03
    Lithia Springs CDPCensus-designated place
    16,875
  4. 04
    Austell cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    8,447
  5. 05
    Fairplay CDPCensus-designated place
    1,881

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.093% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.74%

$2,212 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+373

6,695 in · 6,322 out

Arriving vs leaving income−$3,926

$45,411 arriving · $49,337 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors7.1%

134 of 1,881 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings710▲ 9.3% year over year
Median days on market57▲ 8.6% year over year
Listings price-reduced22.0%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▲ 0.9% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Atlanta, GA

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Douglas County147,888$305k$1,7657.0%inland flooding
Fulton County1,076,561$421k$1,9075.4%inland flooding
Gwinnett County979,864$411k$1,8485.4%inland flooding
Cobb County775,208$429k$1,7524.9%inland flooding
DeKalb County765,351$339k$1,7816.3%inland flooding
Clayton County298,924$231k$1,5968.3%inland flooding
Cherokee County281,032$479k$2,1375.3%inland flooding
Forsyth County267,287$620k$2,3124.5%inland flooding
Henry County249,960$323k$1,8556.9%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Unpublished operating, insurance, financing, and rent-distribution data could materially reduce net yield below the supplied gross yield.
  2. County medians and MLS listing indicators may not represent the target neighborhood, property condition, or closed-sale pricing.
  3. Inland-flood exposure and insurance availability can vary sharply by parcel despite the county-level modeled loss measure.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Is there a market-rent figure usable for gross-yield analysis?

Yes. The record publishes median asking market rent and a supplied gross yield; HUD FMR should not replace either measure.

What do the Realtor.com figures establish?

They establish MLS active-listing supply, asking-price positioning, marketing time, price reductions, and pending listings relative to active inventory, not closed-sale outcomes.

Does the employment data describe resident labor conditions?

No. QCEW measures annual covered employment at workplaces in the county, not resident employment or unemployment.