Doraville, Georgia.
Typical home $360,034 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,772 (-0.7%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$975 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,350 +0%
- $358,684$360,034 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,803 +16%
- $309,230$360,034 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.
- Doraville$1,890
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Doraville, GA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Doraville, GA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Doraville runs $781/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $983 in Apr 2024.
That is $2,553 a month against $1,772 rent: a $1,890 mortgage payment, plus $278 property tax and $385 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Doraville
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$2,553
- Renting$1,772
- Mortgage only$1,890
Property tax · $278/mo 0.93% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dekalb County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $385/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 Doraville, DeKalb County, Georgia
Doraville is a city of 10,623 people in DeKalb County. Half its households earn more than $67,235 a year and half less, against $80,644 across DeKalb County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then construction.
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. Doraville is a city in DeKalb County, in the Atlanta area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a large part of the town, and incomes run below the county's. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest days in January still well above freezing at their warmest, while summers are hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Within Doraville itself, some of the largest workplaces are Hermeus, an aircraft maker, ImageFIRST Healthcare Laundry, and Americold Logistics, which runs refrigerated warehousing. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Atlanta Silverbacks Park, a stadium, is in or beside town. A longer drive away are the Georgia Aquarium and the High Museum of Art, both well known Atlanta attractions, and Zoo Atlanta.
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- 3,743households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 16%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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Doraville
- HermeusAircraft manufacturing274
- ImageFIRST Healthcare LaundryLinen supply services183
- Americold LogisticsRefrigerated warehousing & storage141
- Gaskets AcquisitionAgents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade131
- Innerface Architectural SignageSigns and signboards manufacturing118
- Waste Pro of Georgia114
- Metro Green RecyclingRecyclable materials merchant wholesalers91
- DoravilleMail and parcel delivery76
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,785 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of DoravilleRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of DoravilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Doraville’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.
Doraville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doraville$360,034
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Doraville listings — 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.
- Doraville26.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Doraville25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Doraville7
Zip codes with a Doraville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doraville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.