Dalton, Georgia.
Typical home $238,676 (-0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,451 (+3.3%). Dalton, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,095 -0%
- $239,771$238,676 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,038 +30%
- $183,638$238,676 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.
- Dalton$1,253
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Dalton, GA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Dalton, GA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Dalton runs $184/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $245 in Jun 2025.
That is $1,635 a month against $1,451 rent: a $1,253 mortgage payment, plus $127 property tax and $256 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Dalton
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$1,635
- Renting$1,451
- Mortgage only$1,253
Property tax · $127/mo 0.64% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Whitfield County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $256/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 Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia
Dalton is a city of 34,417 people in Whitfield County. Half its households earn more than $63,577 a year and half less, against $67,070 across Whitfield County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Dalton was 3.5% in August 2026, and Whitfield County had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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. Dalton is a small city in Whitfield County, in the northwest corner of Georgia. Its residents are younger than in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Incomes run a little below the county's, and homes are only narrowly more often lived in by their owners than rented, so renting is a common way to live here. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with August the warmest.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest line of work for residents, followed by schools and hospitals, then shops, restaurants and hotels. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Shaw Industries Group and Mohawk Industries, both carpet makers, along with Dalton Public Schools. Job numbers across the county slipped over the past year, and the commute is short for most people, who get to work quickly.
Things to do. The Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden, a museum in or beside town, is the closest cultural stop. A short drive away, Holly Creek and Dry Creek offer small waterways for a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, New Echota is a protected historic area and Fort Mountain State Park is a protected area where one can spend a day outside.
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- 12,399households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whitfield County had 55,935 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalton weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dalton
- Dalton Public SchoolsSchool district1,045FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials722
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials539
- Mohawk IndustriesCarpet509
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials456
- Synthetic Turf ResourcesCarpets and rugs made from textile materials455
- Engineered FloorsThread, all fibers, manufacturing436
- Dalton State CollegeUniversity or college389
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 63 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,661 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of DaltonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dalton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Whitfield County and the Dalton, GA metro.
Dalton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dalton$238,676
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dalton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 59 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.
- Dalton28.66%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dalton59
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dalton301
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dalton61
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dalton$243,361
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dalton96.93%
Zip codes with a Dalton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dalton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Dalton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30721 | Dalton | 53,060 | $1,592 | $231,522 |
| 30720 | Dalton | 27,249 | $1,404 | $264,291 |