Zip lookup · GA

30542
Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Flowery Branch, Hall County, GA · Gainesville, GA metro · population 38,605

What it costs per month · 30542 $2,206/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,219 (+124%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $7,488 -2%
$427,727$420,239 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $74,626 +22%
$345,613$420,239 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 30542 $2,206 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 30542$2,206
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.

Typical home values in zip 30542 fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 30542 rose 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 30542 runs $1,061/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,233 in May 2024.

That is $2,913 a month against $1,851 rent: a $2,206 mortgage payment, plus $257 property tax and $450 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 30542

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,913 Renting $1,851 Mortgage only $2,206
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$2,913
  • Renting$1,851
  • Mortgage only$2,206

Property tax · $257/mo 0.73% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Hall County, GA

Insurance & upkeep · $450/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Flowery Branch, GA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,851 as of Sep 2026
+1.4%year on year
Typical home value $420,239 as of Sep 2026
-1.8%year on year

Asking rent — 30542

Against the Gainesville, GA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 30542 $1,851 Gainesville $1,701 United States $1,932
$1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2022 2024 2026
  • 30542$1,851
  • Gainesville$1,701
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 30542

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 30542 $420,239 Gainesville $385,576 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 30542$420,239
  • Gainesville$385,576
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
4.2 30566 Oakwood 9,447 $1,621 $315,206
6.2 30504 Gainesville 29,422 $2,033 $362,935
6.5 30519 Buford 59,997 $2,087 $454,814
7.2 30517 Braselton 18,994 $2,406 $437,323
7.4 30518 Buford 57,912 $2,043 $453,284
10.0 30507 Gainesville 33,009 $2,095 $330,741
10.2 30548 Hoschton 26,232 $2,151 $481,244
10.7 30041 Cumming 77,664 $2,149 $620,123
11.0 30501 Gainesville 32,258 $1,522 $310,767
11.2 30575 Talmo 1,589 — $360,688
11.5 30011 Auburn 21,624 $2,314 $372,848
11.8 30506 Gainesville 45,612 $2,083 $443,895
13.0 30567 Pendergrass 5,487 $1,969 $360,009
13.1 30024 Suwanee 88,067 $1,975 $597,485
13.3 30043 Lawrenceville 87,929 $1,916 $399,072
14.0 30019 Dacula 51,162 $2,492 $442,496
15.7 30040 Cumming 82,532 $2,299 $581,701
16.5 30046 Lawrenceville 41,850 $1,838 $337,172
17.0 30543 Gillsville 6,238 — $326,699
17.2 30097 Duluth 46,876 $1,934 $706,506
17.2 30045 Lawrenceville 44,993 $2,317 $389,143
17.3 30028 Cumming 38,433 $2,063 $535,864
17.4 30680 Winder 48,388 $2,085 $342,916
19.0 30005 Alpharetta 41,836 $2,033 $747,341
19.2 30620 Bethlehem 18,139 $2,054 $365,908
19.5 30096 Duluth 71,732 $1,616 $403,704
19.6 30549 Jefferson 32,075 $1,886 $409,798
19.9 30044 Lawrenceville 101,475 $1,777 $353,952

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.