Hiram, Georgia.
Typical home $308,855 (-0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,001 (+5.0%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$890 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,482 -0%
- $310,338$308,855 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,010 +17%
- $264,846$308,855 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.
- Hiram$1,621
- 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 Hiram, GA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hiram, GA rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hiram runs $157/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $523 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,158 a month against $2,001 rent: a $1,621 mortgage payment, plus $207 property tax and $331 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hiram
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$2,158
- Renting$2,001
- Mortgage only$1,621
Property tax · $207/mo 0.80% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Paulding County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $331/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 Hiram, Paulding County, Georgia
Hiram is a city of 4,929 people in Paulding County. Half its households earn more than $85,119 a year and half less, against $98,031 across Paulding County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Paulding County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Paulding County 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. Hiram is a small city in Paulding County, Georgia, with a young population: residents are noticeably younger than in most American towns. Household incomes run below the county's, while homes and rents here are priced well above what many people expect for a place this size. Winters are mild and brief, with snow only now and then, and summers are hot and rainy enough to keep things green.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops and professional and business services close behind, and the building trades also employ a good number. The largest workplaces in Hiram include Paulding County Schools, Paulding Medical Center and Walmart. A fair number of people work from home, and local job numbers across the county have been growing a little.
Things to do. Most of the better-known outings are a longer drive away, in and around Atlanta. They include the Georgia Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta and the High Museum of Art. For sports, Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the best known, and the Etowah Indian Mounds, an archaeological site, are also a longer drive away.
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- 1,841households
- 12%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Paulding County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Paulding County had 30,869 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dallas Northeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hiram
- Paulding County SchoolsSchool district4,020FTE
- Paulding Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,134FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
- TargetDiscount department stores227
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters167
- JCPenneyRetail67
- Dallas MillworkWood window and door manufacturing61
- Kohl's61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,637 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Hiram’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 Paulding County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Hiram home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hiram$308,855
- 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 Hiram listings, and the typical home goes pending in 45 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.
- Hiram32.77%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hiram45
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hiram137
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hiram29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hiram$319,103
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Hiram address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hiram — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.