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Home appreciation in Athens, GA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Athens, GA grew an average of 11.4% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.2%

2025 over 2024. Georgia: +3.3%.

5-year, per year

+11.4%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Georgia: +10.2%.

10-year, per year

+9.3%

+143.1% in total since 2015. Georgia: +8.2%.

How does your home compare?

Athens, GA home prices rose 143.1% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +114.4% to +170.1%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Athens, GA compares with Georgia

Georgia averaged +10.2% a year, so Athens, GA grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Athens, GA ranks 24th out of 409 metros nationwide and 4th out of 15 in Georgia.

Index, 2005 = 100

Athens-Clarke County, GA and Georgia, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearAthens-Clarke County, GAGeorgia
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101101
2005 Q3101103
2005 Q4103104
2006 Q1104105
2006 Q2104106
2006 Q3105107
2006 Q4107109
2007 Q1109110
2007 Q2108110
2007 Q3110109
2007 Q4110110
2008 Q1111110
2008 Q2109109
2008 Q3107106
2008 Q4109105
2009 Q1109107
2009 Q2108104
2009 Q3104100
2009 Q410399
2010 Q110497
2010 Q210295
2010 Q310195
2010 Q410094
2011 Q19591
2011 Q29487
2011 Q39387
2011 Q49287
2012 Q19185
2012 Q29083
2012 Q39184
2012 Q49085
2013 Q19086
2013 Q29288
2013 Q39289
2013 Q49490
2014 Q19591
2014 Q29593
2014 Q39795
2014 Q49996
2015 Q19897
2015 Q2100100
2015 Q3102101
2015 Q4102102
2016 Q1105103
2016 Q2107105
2016 Q3109107
2016 Q4111108
2017 Q1112109
2017 Q2113112
2017 Q3116114
2017 Q4118115
2018 Q1120117
2018 Q2125120
2018 Q3127122
2018 Q4127123
2019 Q1130125
2019 Q2132127
2019 Q3135129
2019 Q4136130
2020 Q1140132
2020 Q2141134
2020 Q3143136
2020 Q4146139
2021 Q1151143
2021 Q2162151
2021 Q3169161
2021 Q4179169
2022 Q1183177
2022 Q2202189
2022 Q3208195
2022 Q4210194
2023 Q1209196
2023 Q2216202
2023 Q3219205
2023 Q4229205
2024 Q1224209
2024 Q2231212
2024 Q3237215
2024 Q4240215
2025 Q1243217
2025 Q2248219
2025 Q3242221
2025 Q4246222
2026 Q1248223
2026 Q2251224

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +9.3% a year over ten years, +143.1% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2007, fell 17.1% to its 2012 low, and regained the 2007 level in 2017.

The strongest year was 2022 at +21.6%, and the weakest was 2011 at -7.9%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.2%, against +3.3% for the state.

ZIP codes in Athens, GA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 13 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +114.4% in 30648 to +170.1% in 30629, while the metro as a whole rose 143.1%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 30629+170.1%
  2. 30607+151.1%
  3. 30683+148.3%
  4. 30601+142.8%
  5. 30605+139.2%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 30648+114.4%
  2. 30633+122.3%
  3. 30628+131.3%
  4. 30606+131.7%
  5. 30622+132.9%
ZIP codes in Athens-Clarke County, GA ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
30629+20.9%+14.0%+10.4%+170.1%
30607+5.8%+12.3%+9.6%+151.1%
30683+8.6%+11.4%+9.5%+148.3%
30601+7.6%+10.8%+9.3%+142.8%
30605+4.4%+10.9%+9.1%+139.2%
30646+8.2%+12.4%+9.1%+139.0%
30621+4.2%+11.9%+8.9%+135.6%
30677+4.7%+11.1%+8.9%+133.8%
30622+6.4%+11.7%+8.8%+132.9%
30606+3.4%+10.3%+8.8%+131.7%
30628+0.5%+11.9%+8.7%+131.3%
30633+4.0%+11.1%+8.3%+122.3%
30648+3.5%+11.6%+7.9%+114.4%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Athens-Clarke County, GA and Georgia, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006103.8+3.8%104.5
2007107.6+3.7%107.6
2008107.60.0%105.1
2009104.5-2.9%100.4
2010100.2-4.1%93.2
201192.3-7.9%86.2
201289.2-3.3%82.8
201390.6+1.5%86.1
201495.3+5.2%91.9
201599.4+4.2%97.7
2016106.3+7.0%103.6
2017113.2+6.5%109.9
2018122.8+8.5%117.9
2019131.3+6.9%125.0
2020140.6+7.1%132.4
2021162.9+15.8%152.6
2022198.0+21.6%184.7
2023215.3+8.8%197.7
2024229.6+6.6%208.2
2025241.5+5.2%215.1

The 15 measured metros in Georgia

Measured metros in Georgia ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Hinesville, GA+7.4%+12.4%+7.4%
2Savannah, GA+4.1%+12.0%+8.6%
3Gainesville, GA+4.4%+11.6%+9.0%
4Athens-Clarke County, GA+5.2%+11.4%+9.3%
5Brunswick-St. Simons, GA+8.5%+11.4%+8.6%
6Rome, GA+1.6%+10.8%+8.1%
7Marietta, GA (metropolitan division)+2.4%+10.6%+9.0%
8Dalton, GA+4.2%+10.5%+8.1%
9Warner Robins, GA+3.6%+10.2%+7.1%
10Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC+6.5%+10.0%+7.4%
11Macon-Bibb County, GA+6.0%+9.8%+6.8%
12Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA (metropolitan division)+2.3%+9.7%+8.2%
13Albany, GA+6.3%+9.2%+5.9%
14Valdosta, GA+4.8%+9.2%+5.8%
15Columbus, GA-AL+4.2%+8.5%+5.7%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Georgia row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2