Austell, Georgia.
Typical home $292,882 (-2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,669 (-2.7%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$853 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,871 -2%
- $298,753$292,882 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,031 +19%
- $246,851$292,882 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.
- Austell$1,537
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Austell, GA fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Austell, GA fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Austell runs $345/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $655 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,014 a month against $1,669 rent: a $1,537 mortgage payment, plus $163 property tax and $314 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Austell
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$2,014
- Renting$1,669
- Mortgage only$1,537
Property tax · $163/mo 0.67% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Cobb County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $314/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 Austell, Cobb County, Georgia
Austell is a city of 7,713 people in Cobb County. Half its households earn more than $72,938 a year and half less, against $102,738 across Cobb County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Cobb County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cobb County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Austell is a small city in Cobb County, with a median age somewhat younger than many American towns. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are warm, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Within Austell itself, some of the largest workplaces are Iron Mountain, Greif Austell Tube and AT&T. Fewer than most of the county's adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, though some people work from home.
Things to do. Six Flags Over Georgia, an amusement park, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Truist Park, a stadium, and to the High Museum of Art, one of the museums in Atlanta. The Georgia Aquarium is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,033households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Cobb County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cobb County had 381,663 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mableton North weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Austell
- Iron MountainGeneral warehousing and storage132
- Greif Austell TubeBobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard83
- AT&TWired telecommunications carriers42
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 257 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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 high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of AustellRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of AustellRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Austell’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Cobb County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Austell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Austell$292,882
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Austell listings, and the typical home goes pending in 37 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Austell28.52%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Austell37
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Austell164
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Austell35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Austell$295,960
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Austell98.93%
Zip codes with a Austell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Austell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Austell
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30168 | Austell | 26,612 | $1,600 | $279,063 |
| 30106 | Austell | 23,107 | $1,811 | $303,027 |