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Toombs County growth

35 new homes permitted in 2025

Census Building Permits Survey, 2025

New homes permitted in Toombs County

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

New housing units permitted in Toombs County
PeriodNew homesIn single-family homes
Jan–Sep 20262117
Jan–Sep 2025277
20253519
2024339
20233010
2022231
2021242
2020193
201995
  • Sep 20262
  • Aug 20262
  • Jul 20260
  • Jun 20262
  • May 20263
  • Apr 20260
  • Mar 20266
  • Feb 20263
  • Jan 20263
  • Dec 20252
  • Nov 20253
  • Oct 20255

New homes permitted each month, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

People in Toombs County

  • Population27,545Census Population Estimates · July 1, 2025
  • Change since 2020+465 (+1.7%)July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 · Census Population Estimates
  • New homes per 1,000 residents1.32025 permits per 1,000 people on July 1, 2025 · Census
  • Median household income$52,6212020-2024 · Census ACS 5-year, ±$4,567

Jobs in Toombs County

  • Jobs in the county11,971Annual average 2025, all industries, by place of work · BLS QCEW
  • Change since 2020+151 (+1.3%)2020 to 2025 annual averages · BLS QCEW
  • Average weekly wage$8972025, all industries · BLS QCEW

Home values in Toombs County

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

  • Home prices, 1 year−1%2024 to 2025 · FHFA House Price Index
  • Home prices, 5 years+53%2020 to 2025 · FHFA House Price Index

Growth in nearby counties

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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.