Georgia in 2012 home price index and building permits for one year

FHFA annual index 2011 to 2012
Permits in 2012

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The FHFA annual house price index for Georgia decreased by 5.0% from 2011 to 2012. In the same years, the index for the United States decreased by 1.8%. Building permits in the state authorized 24,350 housing units in 2012. 17,297 of the units are in buildings with one unit.

The FHFA HPI® is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The FHFA HPI® is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index, "What does the FHFA HPI® represent?". The site copied the text on 2 Oct 2026.

FHFA about the annual indexes of small areas: We use the all-transactions data but construct indexes on a yearly basis to provide data for very small geographic areas like counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts. FHFA FAQs, question 5

FHFA's name for the file of this index: Counties (Developmental Index; Not Seasonally Adjusted). FHFA revises earlier values of its index in each period: FHFA FAQs, question 13.

Annual index through 2025, from the FHFA release of 31 Mar 2026.

Counties in 2012

Counties of Georgia in 2012, by name: change of the FHFA annual county index from 2011 to 2012, and housing units authorized in 2012
County	Index change	Units authorized	In buildings with 1 unit
Appling County	+4.6%	3	3
Bacon County	−11.7%	0	0
Baldwin County	−0.3%	105	28
Banks County	−9.9%	16	16
Barrow County	−8.9%	169	105
Bartow County	−6.7%	73	73
Ben Hill County	−3.7%	15	15
Berrien County	−2.2%	32	32
Bibb County	−4.1%	329	71
Bleckley County	−4.4%	12	12
Brantley County	−2.2%	7	7
Brooks County	+1.0%	21	21
Bryan County	−4.2%	265	244
Bulloch County	−3.6%	421	130
Burke County	−2.8%	29	29
Butts County	−9.2%	7	7
Camden County	−7.1%	112	62
Candler County	−11.1%	1	1
Carroll County	−5.5%	36	36
Catoosa County	−0.9%	116	116
Charlton County	n/a	2	2
Chatham County	−4.8%	1,015	811
Chattooga County	−9.3%	0	0
Cherokee County	−6.6%	1,213	741
Clarke County	−5.0%	353	185
Clayton County	−15.9%	93	93
Cobb County	−5.5%	2,245	1,193
Coffee County	0.0%	13	13
Colquitt County	+1.3%	69	65
Columbia County	−3.0%	1,209	1,125
Cook County	−1.7%	28	28
Coweta County	−5.6%	403	403
Crawford County	+2.3%	25	25
Crisp County	−1.7%	16	16
Dade County	+4.6%	1	1
Dawson County	−0.2%	107	35
Decatur County	−2.9%	21	21
DeKalb County	−3.3%	673	208
Dodge County	−7.3%	16	13
Dooly County	−4.0%	0	0
Dougherty County	−3.2%	62	34
Douglas County	−12.1%	139	139
Early County	−7.2%	7	7
Effingham County	−5.1%	260	208
Elbert County	−6.0%	19	10
Emanuel County	−2.5%	7	3
Evans County	−3.9%	23	23
Fannin County	−3.6%	149	149
Fayette County	−6.4%	192	184
Floyd County	−2.1%	43	32
Forsyth County	−4.9%	2,273	1,862
Franklin County	−6.9%	5	3
Fulton County	−2.6%	3,432	1,668
Gilmer County	−3.6%	71	71
Glynn County	−9.5%	368	368
Gordon County	−5.0%	32	32
Grady County	−6.9%	17	17
Greene County	−5.5%	114	114
Gwinnett County	−7.9%	2,469	1,564
Habersham County	−7.5%	37	33
Hall County	−7.2%	303	303
Hancock County	−2.8%	13	13
Haralson County	−3.1%	17	17
Harris County	−3.2%	89	89
Hart County	−2.4%	29	29
Heard County	−7.2%	14	14
Henry County	−11.0%	208	208
Houston County	−1.9%	572	572
Irwin County	−8.5%	12	12
Jackson County	−4.3%	70	70
Jasper County	−11.4%	39	39
Jeff Davis County	−7.7%	0	0
Jefferson County	−7.2%	16	16
Jenkins County	+4.1%	9	9
Jones County	−2.3%	13	13
Lamar County	−10.7%	10	10
Lanier County	n/a	9	9
Laurens County	+0.2%	33	33
Lee County	−3.6%	132	132
Liberty County	−2.6%	219	219
Lincoln County	−2.4%	17	15
Lowndes County	−3.1%	327	321
Lumpkin County	−3.2%	35	35
Macon County	+14.3%	7	7
Madison County	−6.2%	37	37
Marion County	−6.5%	9	9
McDuffie County	−1.5%	14	14
McIntosh County	−8.1%	89	89
Meriwether County	−4.3%	23	23
Miller County	−4.0%	0	0
Mitchell County	−9.3%	15	15
Monroe County	−4.4%	127	47
Montgomery County	+1.0%	9	9
Morgan County	−8.3%	15	15
Murray County	−7.2%	29	29
Muscogee County	−3.7%	485	262
Newton County	−9.3%	66	66
Oconee County	−2.3%	184	180
Oglethorpe County	−7.6%	45	45
Paulding County	−8.2%	213	213
Peach County	−3.2%	66	54
Pickens County	−5.0%	34	34
Pierce County	−3.7%	22	22
Pike County	−5.5%	16	16
Polk County	−9.1%	30	20
Pulaski County	−5.1%	14	14
Putnam County	−0.6%	27	27
Rabun County	−4.4%	71	47
Richmond County	−4.5%	378	367
Rockdale County	−12.6%	36	36
Schley County	−11.8%	0	0
Screven County	−3.8%	15	15
Seminole County	−3.2%	4	4
Spalding County	−6.7%	92	92
Stephens County	−5.9%	2	2
Sumter County	−1.5%	23	23
Talbot County	−12.8%	6	6
Tattnall County	+3.7%	18	18
Taylor County	−9.2%	9	9
Terrell County	−3.6%	16	16
Thomas County	−5.9%	161	77
Tift County	−2.0%	56	48
Toombs County	−6.6%	20	8
Towns County	−1.8%	44	44
Troup County	−3.3%	62	62
Turner County	−6.3%	6	6
Twiggs County	−3.1%	11	11
Union County	+2.6%	87	87
Upson County	−9.0%	11	11
Walker County	−2.5%	51	51
Walton County	−8.3%	88	88
Ware County	−6.3%	77	77
Washington County	−6.0%	48	48
Wayne County	−4.0%	52	2
White County	−4.5%	26	26
Whitfield County	−2.9%	34	34
Wilcox County	+7.0%	0	0
Wilkes County	−10.6%	45	1
Wilkinson County	+4.2%	2	2
Worth County	+0.3%	19	19

"n/a": FHFA has no county index value for one of the two years.

Building permits by year

Housing units authorized in Georgia by year, 1995 to 2025

50,000

100,000

Units in buildings with 1 unit
Units in buildings with 2 or more units

Units for each year

Housing units authorized by building permits in Georgia, by year
Year	All units	1 unit	2 or more units
2025	61,196	44,351	16,845
2024	68,367	48,243	20,124
2023	63,621	44,405	19,216
2022	77,542	47,026	30,516
2021	67,223	53,419	13,804
2020	55,827	47,982	7,845
2019	53,823	42,939	10,884
2018	59,315	42,287	17,028
2017	51,240	40,311	10,929
2016	51,675	36,481	15,194
2015	45,549	32,621	12,928
2014	39,423	27,503	11,920
2013	36,174	24,810	11,364
2012	24,350	17,297	7,053
2011	18,493	13,817	4,676
2010	17,265	14,779	2,486
2009	18,228	14,674	3,554
2008	35,368	24,879	10,489
2007	73,165	55,210	17,955
2006	104,200	86,106	18,094
2005	109,336	94,467	14,869
2004	108,356	87,731	20,625
2003	96,704	80,683	16,021
2002	97,523	75,529	21,994
2001	93,059	71,531	21,528
2000	91,820	68,852	22,968
1999	89,581	71,530	18,051
1998	85,401	67,879	17,522
1997	75,123	59,596	15,527
1996	74,874	59,397	15,477
1995	72,225	55,027	17,198

Sources: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price indexes for states and counties, release of March 31, 2026. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state and county files.