Alpharetta, Georgia.
Typical home $711,257 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $2,083 (-0.6%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,155 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,879 -0%
- $713,135$711,257 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $180,787 +34%
- $530,470$711,257 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.
- Alpharetta$3,733
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Alpharetta, GA fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Alpharetta, GA fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Alpharetta runs $2,932/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,086 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,016 a month against $2,083 rent: a $3,733 mortgage payment, plus $521 property tax and $761 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Alpharetta
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.
- Owning all in$5,016
- Renting$2,083
- Mortgage only$3,733
Property tax · $521/mo 0.88% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fulton County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $761/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.
Living in Alpharetta, Fulton County, Georgia
Alpharetta is a city of 65,818 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $147,612 a year and half less, against $95,292 across Fulton County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Alpharetta was 2.8% in August 2026, and Fulton County had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alpharetta is a city where households earn well above the county's typical income, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents run high. The population skews middle-aged, and winters are mild and short while summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Alpharetta are Automatic Data Processing, Avanos Medical and Verizon Communications. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and a good share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Truist Park, a stadium, is a longer drive away and is a well-known place to catch a ballgame. Also a longer drive away are the Georgia Aquarium and the High Museum of Art, a museum. Lake Lanier, a large reservoir, offers another day out for those willing to make the drive.
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- 25,032households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 37%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 948,768 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta Peachtree Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alpharetta
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services2,380
- AT&T Services, Inc. R07F6Wired telecommunications carriers1,580
- Avanos MedicalMedical device manufacturer1,546
- Verizon CommunicationsWired telecommunications carriers1,421
- Delta Dental Insurance CompanyDental insurance carriers, direct985
- UPSCustom computer programming services928
- AT&T Services, Inc. R07TYWired telecommunications carriers869
- LocumTenens.comTemporary staffing services834
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,507 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alpharetta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Fulton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Alpharetta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alpharetta$711,257
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Alpharetta listings, and the typical home goes pending in 54 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Alpharetta33.17%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Alpharetta54
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alpharetta460
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alpharetta93
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Alpharetta$720,989
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Alpharetta98.64%
Zip codes with a Alpharetta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alpharetta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Alpharetta
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30005 | Alpharetta | 41,836 | $2,033 | $747,341 |
| 30009 | Alpharetta | 21,095 | $2,278 | $754,308 |