Fairburn, Georgia.
Typical home $318,970 (-1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,960 (+1.3%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$887 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,539 -1%
- $323,508$318,970 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,991 +14%
- $278,979$318,970 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.
- Fairburn$1,674
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Fairburn, GA fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fairburn, GA rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fairburn runs $289/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $713 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,249 a month against $1,960 rent: a $1,674 mortgage payment, plus $234 property tax and $341 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fairburn
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$2,249
- Renting$1,960
- Mortgage only$1,674
Property tax · $234/mo 0.88% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fulton County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $341/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 Fairburn, Fulton County, Georgia
Fairburn is a city of 16,483 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $91,897 a year and half less, against $95,292 across Fulton County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Fulton County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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. Fairburn is a city in Fulton County with a population that skews on the younger side, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values and rents are both fairly high. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow in most years, while summers turn hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Fairburn are US Foods - Atlanta, a food distribution warehouse, DHL Supply Chain, which handles freight and warehousing, and Carvana. Commutes tend to be long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Fairburn's nearby places are all a longer drive away. Among the best known are Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a stadium for large events, and the Georgia Aquarium. The World of Coca-Cola, a museum, is another longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 6,082households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 948,768 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fairburn
- US Foods - AtlantaFood distribution warehouse672
- Material in MotionComputer servers manufacturing515
- Shift Fillers LLC-MIMTemporary help services378
- CarvanaMotor vehicle dealers279
- DHL Supply ChainMotor freight transportation and warehousing221
- Schneider210
- Amcon IndustrialMachinery and equipment, large-scale, installation203
- AMS of NJ ( Fairburn, GA)Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,415 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairburn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Fulton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Fairburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairburn$318,970
- 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 Fairburn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 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.
- Fairburn25.96%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fairburn31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairburn226
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fairburn50
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fairburn$303,969
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fairburn98.42%
Zip codes with a Fairburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.