Fayetteville, Georgia.
Typical home $431,916 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $2,205 (+5.4%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,174 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,814 -0%
- $433,730$431,916 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,296 +19%
- $362,620$431,916 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.
- Fayetteville$2,267
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Fayetteville, GA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fayetteville, GA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fayetteville runs $796/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,137 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,000 a month against $2,205 rent: a $2,267 mortgage payment, plus $271 property tax and $462 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fayetteville
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$3,000
- Renting$2,205
- Mortgage only$2,267
Property tax · $271/mo 0.75% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fayette County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $462/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 Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia
Fayetteville is a city of 18,957 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $82,188 a year and half less, against $111,978 across Fayette County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Fayetteville is a small city in Fayette County, south of Atlanta, where most homes are lived in by their owners and many residents are older than in the typical American town. Incomes in the city run below the county's, though a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport and warehouse jobs, with professional and business services close behind. Fayette County Schools, Piedmont Fayette Hospital and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in Fayetteville. The typical commute is a long one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Atlanta Motor Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to the Georgia Aquarium, a well-known attraction in Atlanta, and to the High Museum of Art, one of the city's main art museums. Mercedes-Benz Stadium, also a longer drive away, hosts big games and concerts.
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- 7,671households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 48,483 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayetteville
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district2,736FTE
- Piedmont Fayette HospitalGeneral hospital1,844FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores185
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores184
- TargetDiscount department stores152
- Kroger Atlanta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores137
- Phoenix Senior LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities117
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,941 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fayetteville’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 Fayette County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Fayetteville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fayetteville$431,916
- 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 3 Fayetteville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 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.
- Fayetteville30.99%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fayetteville41
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fayetteville454
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fayetteville92
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fayetteville$412,745
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fayetteville97.78%
Zip codes with a Fayetteville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fayetteville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fayetteville
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30215 | Fayetteville | 40,476 | $2,261 | $469,540 |
| 30214 | Fayetteville | 31,811 | $2,208 | $394,383 |