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Housing in Yonah

A typical Yonah home is worth roughly $214,000

Home prices around Yonah have risen about 62% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$214K
▲ 0.3% in a year · GA $331K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,340
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,274
GA $2,341

What kind of housing town is Yonah?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4.1 years of income

About the same as across Georgia. Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$211,000
Typical Yonah home $214K

That’s $2K short of a typical Yonah home.

The typical home, each month
$1,230
Loan $1,060Tax $110Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,340 a month here, $110 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Yonah’s typical property tax (0.60% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

52% of Yonah households own their home

Half of Yonah’s homes were built before 2000.

Owners and renters
Own 52%Rent 48%

Georgia: 66% own.

2000
typical home built · GA 1992
$1,274
median property tax bill · GA $2,341
0.60%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · GA 0.77%
11%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Price trend

Home prices up 62% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Yonah rose 62% over the past 5 years, faster than across Georgia (58%). Prices were about flat last year.

Yonah areaGeorgia
−50%0%+50%+100%+150%200020052010201520202025
+0.3%
past year
+62%
past 5 years
+108%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Yonah, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,340

Renters already here pay a median of $1,183, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,030
1 bedroom$1,200
2 bedrooms$1,340
3 bedrooms$1,620
4 bedrooms$1,870
48%
of households rent · GA 34%
90
renter households
$1,183
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Lumpkin County, GA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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