Brookhaven, Georgia.
Typical home $742,959 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,843 (+2.3%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,933 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,654 +3%
- $720,305$742,959 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,570 +20%
- $618,389$742,959 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.
- Brookhaven$3,900
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Brookhaven, GA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brookhaven, GA rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brookhaven runs $3,424/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $5,268 a month against $1,843 rent: a $3,900 mortgage payment, plus $573 property tax and $795 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brookhaven
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$5,268
- Renting$1,843
- Mortgage only$3,900
Property tax · $573/mo 0.93% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dekalb County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $795/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 Brookhaven, DeKalb County, Georgia
Brookhaven is a city of 55,161 people in DeKalb County. Half its households earn more than $117,663 a year and half less, against $80,644 across DeKalb County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Brookhaven was 2.6% in August 2026, and DeKalb County had 0.8% 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. Brookhaven is a city in DeKalb County, and its people tend to be on the younger side. Household incomes run well above the county's, and far more adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Homes here are split fairly evenly between owners and renters, and typical home values and rents are high. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over 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 Brookhaven are AT&T Services, the Center for Advanced Pediatrics and Lenbrook Square Foundation, a continuing care retirement community. Unemployment is low and has barely moved over the past year, and the commute is a fairly typical one. A good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Several well-known places are a short drive away. The Georgia Aquarium and Zoo Atlanta suit a family outing, and the High Museum of Art is a short drive off for a quieter afternoon. Truist Park, a stadium, is also a short drive away for a ball game.
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- 24,271households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 30%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 312,426 jobs in 2025, 0.8% 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brookhaven
- FlatironDragados ConstructionConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge4,636
- AT&T Services, Inc. RDP03Wired telecommunications carriers1,919
- AT&T Services, Inc. RBN82Wired telecommunications carriers983
- Center for Advanced PediatricsHealthcare569
- Lenbrook Square FoundationContinuing care retirement communities311
- Retail Management Services Crp551114307
- Oglethorpe UniversityUniversity or college289
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer277
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,066 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookhaven’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 DeKalb County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Brookhaven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookhaven$742,959
- 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 Brookhaven listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Brookhaven26.92%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brookhaven34
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookhaven280
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookhaven75
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brookhaven$726,076
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Brookhaven98.98%
Zip codes with a Brookhaven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookhaven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.