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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −5.9% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +25.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.9% YoY while the median home got down 0.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.3%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $159K purchase rents for $875/mo: 0.55% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Rentals here take about 60 days longer to find a tenant than sales take to go under contract (median across 2 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 31707 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 57.3% of this ZIP's 10,946 occupied households, on a median household income of $51K.
| Measure | ZIP 31707 | Dougherty County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $51K | $49K | +$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 19.9% | 25.0% | -5.1% |
| Median Age | 35.60 | 36.60 | -1.00 |
| Total Population | 22,679 | 83,091 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.04 | 2.30 | -0.26 |
| Owner-Occupied | 42.7% | 45.3% | -2.6% |
| Worked From Home | 7.9% | 9.1% | -1.2% |
| Mean Commute | 19.20 | 20.00 | -0.80 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 1.0% to 83,091: residents under 18 are down 1.2% and those 65 and over are up 1.3%.
County median household income is $49K, 25.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 9.1% work from home.