ZIP 30301 · Atlanta, GA · 25,000 residents · September 2026
Atlanta 30301: the market leans toward buyers.
Conditions easing in buyers' favor. Typical home value $380K, −1.5% over 12 months; listings take 45 days to sell against 60 in the median U.S. ZIP.
Market balanceSeptember 2026
Higher than 94% of scored ZIPs · #603 of 13,130 ZIPs with 5,000+ residents
Five parts, weighted. How the score works →
The reading
Where the balance sits this month and what moved it.
Month by month, since the gauge began
- Sep 2026−27
Each block is one month’s reading, −100 (buyers) to +100 (sellers). The series starts in September 2026. How the balance is measured →
What is pulling the needle
- 45 days on marketfaster than the U.S. median ZIP's 60 days
- 22% of listings cut pricemore than the U.S. median ZIP's 20%
- Sale-to-list —No sale-to-list figure for this ZIP
- 780 active listings+77900% vs a year ago
Blue pulls toward buyers, orange toward sellers. Realtor.com, September 2026; Redfin.
Softening: prices −1.5% over the trailing year, with the market leaning toward buyers.
Asking price vs sale price
Zillow's figure is a smoothed index of typical value, not a list price; Redfin's are closed sales for the month shown. A dash means Redfin has no closed-sale figure for the latest month.
Prices
Typical home value, and how far it moved over each window.
Zillow's typical home value here, $380K in August 2026, is 32% above the median U.S. ZIP's $289K. Over the 12 months to August 2026, Zillow's typical home value moved −1.5% here and +2.8% in the median U.S. ZIP.
How it ranks
Appreciation by window
| Window | Change | Per year | U.S. rank | Georgia rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | −1.5% | −1.5%/yr | Higher than 15% nationally | Higher than 27% in Georgia |
Zillow ZHVI · rank among scored ZIPs
Payment
What a typical home here costs each month, against the typical income.
Monthly payment
$2,90756% of the median household income here ($62,000)Above the 36% line lenders use for total debt, for a median earner here. Rate is the Freddie Mac average for September 2026; tax is the state's statutory rate.
Insurance is assumed at 0.5% of the home's value a year; Treasury's Federal Insurance Office did not publish a premium for this ZIP.
Buying costs $1,357 a month more than renting here before tax effects and maintenance; the gap is 88% of rent. Rents moved +2.0% over the year.
Under these assumptions the cumulative cost of owning and renting cross in year 29.
Price-to-income ladder
Median home value ÷ median household income · Zillow ZHVI, Census ACS · under 4× has historically been comfortable
The place
What it costs to own here beyond the price, and what the neighborhood is like.
Typical homes cost 6.1× the median household income here, against 4.2× in the median GA ZIP and 4.3× in the median U.S. ZIP (Zillow, August 2026; Census ACS 2023). Median household income is $62,000 here, against $71,388 in the median U.S. ZIP (Census ACS 2023).
Everyday prices
Everyday prices in the Atlanta metro match the U.S. average (BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024).
Rents in the index run 11% above the U.S. average.
$75,000 at U.S.-average prices buys what $75,050 buys here.
Metro-level index, U.S. = 100 · 2024 · the Atlanta metro, not this ZIP alone.
Behind the score
The inputs behind each of the five parts, against the U.S. median ZIP.
Livability
—Seller's report
A two-page brief for selling here: the market balance, recent signals and an illustrative net-proceeds estimate.
Nearby
50 scored Georgia ZIPs within 12 miles; the ones below score within ten points and cost less.
Dots are Georgia ZIP centers colored by market balance; the ring is 12 miles.
Sources and freshness
Every figure on this page, where it came from and when.
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