McDonough, Georgia.
Typical home $334,022 (-2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,852 (+1.5%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$930 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,338 -2%
- $342,360$334,022 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,033 +15%
- $290,989$334,022 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.
- McDonough$1,753
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in McDonough, GA fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in McDonough, GA rose 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in McDonough runs $502/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $862 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,354 a month against $1,852 rent: a $1,753 mortgage payment, plus $243 property tax and $358 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — McDonough
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$2,354
- Renting$1,852
- Mortgage only$1,753
Property tax · $243/mo 0.87% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Henry County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $358/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 McDonough, Henry County, Georgia
McDonough is a city of 29,051 people in Henry County. Half its households earn more than $75,343 a year and half less, against $83,146 across Henry County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in McDonough was 4.0% in August 2026, and Henry County had 1.8% 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. McDonough is the seat of Henry County, Georgia, a city whose residents are younger than the typical American's. Households here earn less than the county as a whole, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are mild and cool, with January days staying above freezing but nights dipping to about the freezing point, while July is hot, and rain and the occasional melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more of McDonough's residents than any other field, followed by shops, then transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the town's largest workplaces are Henry County Schools, DHL Supply Chain and Publix Super Markets. Jobs across Henry County were fewer last year than the year before, and the commute to work is a fairly long one for many residents.
Things to do. Most of what draws visitors lies a longer drive away, in and around Atlanta. Mercedes-Benz Stadium is one of the best known, and the Georgia Aquarium and the High Museum of Art offer a day indoors. For a change of pace, Atlanta Motor Speedway is a race track also a longer drive away.
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- 10,886households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 75,454 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcdonough Ene weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McDonough
- Henry County SchoolsSchool district5,229FTE
- Westbury Center of McDonough for Nursing and HealingSkilled nursing facilities315
- DHL Supply ChainMotor freight transportation and warehousing290
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores167
- Encompass GroupApparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric151
- DHL Supply ChainMotor freight transportation and warehousing140
- McdonoughMail and parcel delivery140
- Kroger Atlanta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores118
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,881 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of McDonoughRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McDonough’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 Henry County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
McDonough home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McDonough$334,022
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 McDonough listings, and the typical home goes pending in 49 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.
- McDonough33.51%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- McDonough49
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- McDonough759
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- McDonough150
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- McDonough$324,531
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- McDonough98.18%
Zip codes with a McDonough address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McDonough — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in McDonough
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30253 | Mcdonough | 64,779 | $1,781 | $311,206 |
| 30252 | Mcdonough | 49,554 | $2,303 | $374,931 |