Gresham Park, Georgia.
Typical home $248,697 (-6.4% in a year), asking rent $1,499 (+4.1%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$530 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,006 -6%
- $265,703$248,697 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,403 -8%
- $270,100$248,697 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.
- Gresham Park$1,305
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gresham Park, GA fell 6.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Gresham Park, GA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Gresham Park runs $264/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $763 in Nov 2024.
That is $1,763 a month against $1,499 rent: a $1,305 mortgage payment, plus $192 property tax and $266 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Gresham Park
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$1,763
- Renting$1,499
- Mortgage only$1,305
Property tax · $192/mo 0.93% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dekalb County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $266/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 Gresham Park, DeKalb County, Georgia
Gresham Park, in DeKalb County, had 7,700 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $71,042 a year and half less, against $80,644 across DeKalb County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% 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 government, 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. Gresham Park is a community in DeKalb County, Georgia, on the southeast side of the Atlanta area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters than you would find in many towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical for the area. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow, and summers are hot and wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across DeKalb County, some of the largest workplaces are Emory University, DeKalb County Schools and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Georgia Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta and the High Museum of Art are all a short drive away. For something outdoors, Centennial Olympic Park is also a short drive from town. Sports fans can reach Mercedes-Benz Stadium in about the same short drive.
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- 2,858households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 23%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 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DeKalb County
- Emory UniversityUniversity or college14,466
- DeKalb County SchoolsSchool district13,155FTE
- Centers for Disease Control and PreventionFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services6,403
- Insight GlobalTemporary staffing services5,635
- Arthur M Blank HospitalHospitals, general pediatric4,883
- FlatironDragados ConstructionConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge4,636
- Emory University HospitalGeneral hospital4,336FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs4,142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 393 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84,740 people in all across the county; Gresham Park has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Gresham ParkRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gresham Park’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.
Gresham Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gresham Park$248,697
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Gresham Park listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Gresham Park30.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gresham Park103
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gresham Park14
Zip codes with a Gresham Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gresham Park — 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.