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Home appreciation in Macon, GA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Macon, GA grew an average of 9.8% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+6.0%

2025 over 2024. Georgia: +3.3%.

5-year, per year

+9.8%

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

10-year, per year

+6.8%

+92.3% in total since 2015. Georgia: +8.2%.

How does your home compare?

Macon, GA home prices rose 92.3% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +70.4% to +112.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Macon, GA compares with Georgia

Georgia averaged +10.2% a year, putting Macon, GA behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Macon, GA ranks 132nd out of 409 metros nationwide and 11th out of 15 in Georgia.

Index, 2005 = 100

Macon-Bibb County, GA and Georgia, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearMacon-Bibb County, GAGeorgia
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2100101
2005 Q3102103
2005 Q4103104
2006 Q1104105
2006 Q2104106
2006 Q3107107
2006 Q4106109
2007 Q1109110
2007 Q2107110
2007 Q3108109
2007 Q4110110
2008 Q1110110
2008 Q2106109
2008 Q3108106
2008 Q4105105
2009 Q1108107
2009 Q2107104
2009 Q3104100
2009 Q410399
2010 Q110297
2010 Q29995
2010 Q310295
2010 Q49994
2011 Q19891
2011 Q29387
2011 Q39387
2011 Q49387
2012 Q19285
2012 Q29083
2012 Q39284
2012 Q49285
2013 Q19086
2013 Q29288
2013 Q39089
2013 Q49290
2014 Q19191
2014 Q29293
2014 Q39295
2014 Q49196
2015 Q19297
2015 Q293100
2015 Q394101
2015 Q492102
2016 Q195103
2016 Q295105
2016 Q395107
2016 Q495108
2017 Q195109
2017 Q297112
2017 Q397114
2017 Q499115
2018 Q1101117
2018 Q2101120
2018 Q3102122
2018 Q4103123
2019 Q1104125
2019 Q2106127
2019 Q3106129
2019 Q4108130
2020 Q1110132
2020 Q2111134
2020 Q3113136
2020 Q4114139
2021 Q1118143
2021 Q2123151
2021 Q3128161
2021 Q4132169
2022 Q1136177
2022 Q2146189
2022 Q3151195
2022 Q4152194
2023 Q1152196
2023 Q2157202
2023 Q3160205
2023 Q4158205
2024 Q1162209
2024 Q2167212
2024 Q3172215
2024 Q4172215
2025 Q1171217
2025 Q2183219
2025 Q3178221
2025 Q4183222
2026 Q1181223
2026 Q2188224

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.8% a year over ten years, +92.3% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2007, fell 16.2% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2007 level in 2020.

The strongest year was 2022 at +17.3%, and the weakest was 2011 at -6.3%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +6.0%, against +3.3% for the state.

ZIP codes in Macon, GA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 12 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +70.4% in 31217 to +112.3% in 31206, while the metro as a whole rose 92.3%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 31206+112.3%
  2. 31029+96.0%
  3. 31211+95.7%
  4. 31032+94.8%
  5. 31220+91.7%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 31217+70.4%
  2. 31046+77.8%
  3. 31210+78.2%
  4. 31204+83.0%
  5. 31201+85.6%
ZIP codes in Macon-Bibb 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.
31206+6.1%+11.5%+7.8%+112.3%
31029+1.9%+9.9%+7.0%+96.0%
31211+9.0%+9.5%+6.9%+95.7%
31032+11.6%+10.2%+6.9%+94.8%
31220+2.5%+9.6%+6.7%+91.7%
31216+8.4%+9.8%+6.7%+91.5%
31052+1.9%+9.5%+6.6%+89.8%
31201+1.1%+9.4%+6.4%+85.6%
31204+3.7%+9.0%+6.2%+83.0%
31210+5.3%+9.0%+5.9%+78.2%
31046+0.2%+8.9%+5.9%+77.8%
31217+1.0%+8.6%+5.5%+70.4%

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 Macon-Bibb 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
2006103.9+3.9%104.5
2007107.2+3.2%107.6
2008106.0-1.1%105.1
2009104.2-1.7%100.4
201099.4-4.7%93.2
201193.1-6.3%86.2
201290.4-3.0%82.8
201389.8-0.6%86.1
201490.2+0.4%91.9
201591.7+1.7%97.7
201694.0+2.4%103.6
201795.7+1.8%109.9
2018100.7+5.2%117.9
2019104.8+4.1%125.0
2020110.6+5.5%132.4
2021123.4+11.5%152.6
2022144.7+17.3%184.7
2023154.8+7.0%197.7
2024166.5+7.5%208.2
2025176.4+6.0%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