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Lumpkin County growth

270 new homes permitted in 2025

Census Building Permits Survey, 2025

New homes permitted in Lumpkin County

Housing units the county's permit offices authorized, by year, from the Census Bureau.

New housing units permitted in Lumpkin County
PeriodNew homesIn single-family homes
Jan–Sep 2026168168
Jan–Sep 2025214214
2025270270
2024277277
2023242242
2022259259
2021240234
2020228228
2019199199
  • Sep 202611
  • Aug 202618
  • Jul 202621
  • Jun 202621
  • May 202610
  • Apr 202613
  • Mar 202631
  • Feb 202620
  • Jan 202619
  • Dec 202516
  • Nov 202513
  • Oct 202527

New homes permitted each month, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

People in Lumpkin County

  • Population36,178Census Population Estimates · July 1, 2025
  • Change since 2020+2,538 (+7.5%)July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 · Census Population Estimates
  • New homes per 1,000 residents7.52025 permits per 1,000 people on July 1, 2025 · Census
  • Median household income$77,4482020-2024 · Census ACS 5-year, ±$5,631

Jobs in Lumpkin County

  • Jobs in the county8,806Annual average 2025, all industries, by place of work · BLS QCEW
  • Change since 2020+1,573 (+21.7%)2020 to 2025 annual averages · BLS QCEW
  • Average weekly wage$9662025, all industries · BLS QCEW

Home values in Lumpkin County

Change in the price of homes sold or refinanced more than once (the FHFA repeat-sales index).

  • Home prices, 1 year+3%2024 to 2025 · FHFA House Price Index
  • Home prices, 5 years+69%2020 to 2025 · FHFA House Price Index

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About these numbersSources, dates and how these figures are built

New homes

U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2019-01 to 2026-09; annual files 2019-2025, posted May 14, 2026; the monthly files through Sep 2026, posted Oct 27, 2026. New housing units authorized by building permits, reported plus imputed. A month is the figure in that month's file; a year is the annual file, which adds late and corrected reports, so twelve months need not add up to the year. Public domain.

People

U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025, July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025, posted Mar 26, 2026. Public domain.

Income

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, 2020-2024 (2024 dollars), posted Jan 29, 2026. Median household income; printed at a coefficient of variation of 30% or less. Public domain.

Jobs

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2020-2025 annual averages, posted Aug 21, 2026. All industries, all ownerships, jobs covered by unemployment insurance; place of work. Public domain.

Data edition

Figures as of Oct 27, 2026. Area figures, not any one parcel's.