Pine Lake, Georgia.
Typical home $278,295 (-5.8% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$702 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,057 -6%
- $295,351$278,295 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,116 +6%
- $263,178$278,295 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.
- Pine Lake$1,461
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 62 years.
Typical home values in Pine Lake, GA fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine Lake, DeKalb County, Georgia
Pine Lake is a city of 752 people in DeKalb County. 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 people in DeKalb County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Lake is a very small city in DeKalb County, with far fewer people than most places that carry the name city. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, while summers run hot, and rain and the occasional melted snow fall steadily through the year. Most of the adults here have a four-year degree, which is more than in many communities of its size.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across DeKalb County, some of the largest workplaces are Emory University, DeKalb County Schools and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Commutes are fairly long, and a good many people work from home instead of travelling in.
Things to do. The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is a short drive away and is the nearest of the well-known places nearby. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Georgia Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta and the High Museum of Art. Together they make for easy day trips into the city and a mix of outings for visitors and family alike.
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- 57%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What people in DeKalb County 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 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta Peachtree Airport weather station, 8 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; Pine Lake has none 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pine Lake’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 DeKalb County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Pine Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine Lake$278,295
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pine Lake7
Zip codes with a Pine Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.