Carrollton, Georgia.
Typical home $285,799 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,501 (+3.6%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$862 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,584 +1%
- $283,215$285,799 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,218 +25%
- $228,581$285,799 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.
- Carrollton$1,500
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Carrollton, GA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Carrollton, GA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Carrollton runs $451/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $642 in Nov 2023.
That is $1,952 a month against $1,501 rent: a $1,500 mortgage payment, plus $146 property tax and $306 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Carrollton
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$1,952
- Renting$1,501
- Mortgage only$1,500
Property tax · $146/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Carroll County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $306/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 Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia
Carrollton is a city of 26,738 people in Carroll County. Half its households earn more than $54,379 a year and half less, against $73,714 across Carroll County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Carrollton was 3.4% in August 2026, and Carroll County had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Carrollton is a city whose residents are young compared with most of the country, and more of them rent than own their homes. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are mild and short, with snow a rare event, while summers are hot and the year is wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Carrollton are Carroll County Schools, Tanner Medical Center and the University of West Georgia. The typical commute is short, and unemployment has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum is in or beside town, and Grisham Stadium and University Stadium are close by as well. John Tanner State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Little Tallapoosa River is a longer drive for time on the water.
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- 9,992households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 46,150 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carrollton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carrollton
- Carroll County SchoolsSchool district2,056FTE
- Tanner Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,916FTE
- SouthwireOffice administrative services1,797
- University of West GeorgiaUniversity or college1,585
- Decostar IndustriesBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing718
- Carrollton City SchoolsSchool district677FTE
- PilgrimsPoultry processing614
- Tanner Medical GroupDoctors of osteopathy offices531
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,847 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Carrollton’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 Carroll County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Carrollton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carrollton$285,799
- 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 Carrollton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 36 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.
- Carrollton28.11%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Carrollton36
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Carrollton230
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Carrollton55
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Carrollton$288,955
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Carrollton98.84%
Zip codes with a Carrollton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carrollton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Carrollton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30117 | Carrollton | 39,804 | $1,433 | $281,364 |
| 30116 | Carrollton | 22,189 | $1,783 | $287,988 |