Median Home Value (ACS)

What a typical owner-occupied home is worth in each Georgia community - American Community Survey 5-year median values down to the census-tract level.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
Year coverage: 2020–2024
Updated: annual
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: 1fbc1229f458

Detail levels available

StateCounty · defaultDistrict

Overview

Median value of owner-occupied housing units from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates (detailed table B25077), for Georgia at state, county, school district, and census tract geography, vintages 2020-2024. One dollar figure per geography per vintage with its 90 percent margin of error.

Row grain: One row per year, county_fips, district_code, tract_geoid.

Key metric

median_home_value — Median Home Value (currency)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	ACS 5-year vintage END year: 2024 covers the pooled 2020-2024 survey period. Consecutive vintages overlap. Full description▾ ACS 5-year vintage END year: 2024 covers the pooled 2020-2024 survey period. Consecutive vintages overlap.
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	yes	5-digit county FIPS code (state 13 + county). Populated only on county-level rows. Full description▾ 5-digit county FIPS code (state 13 + county). Populated only on county-level rows. Joins counties; adds its label columns.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	GCD school district code (FK to the education districts dimension). Populated only on district-level rows - Census unified-school-district estimates mapped onto the ~180 standard districts. Full description▾ GCD school district code (FK to the education districts dimension). Populated only on district-level rows - Census unified-school-district estimates mapped onto the ~180 standard districts. Joins districts; adds its label columns.
`tract_geoid`Tract GEOID	string	—	—	yes	11-digit census tract GEOID (2020 boundaries). Populated only on tract-level rows. Full description▾ 11-digit census tract GEOID (2020 boundaries). Populated only on tract-level rows. Joins tracts; adds its label columns.
`median_home_value`Median Home Value	integer	currency	—	yes	Median owner-occupied home value. Full description▾ Median value of owner-occupied housing units, dollars. Censored at the scale ends and preserved as published: 2000001 means $2,000,000 or more; 9999 means $9,999 or less. NULL when the source could not compute a median.
`median_home_value_moe`Median Home Value Moe	integer	currency	—	yes	90 percent margin of error for median_home_value, dollars, as published. Never the headline metric. Full description▾ 90 percent margin of error for median_home_value, dollars, as published. Never the headline metric.

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`countiesdistrictsstatestracts`	enum-enforced, default: counties
`district_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`county_fips`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`tract_geoid`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 allowed values▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	multi-value, enum-enforced

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), counties level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/median_home_value"

counties data for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/median_home_value?year=2024"

One district (code 660), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/median_home_value?district_code=660&year=2024&detail=districts"

One county (FIPS 13121), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/median_home_value?county_fips=13121&year=2024&detail=counties"

Download 2024 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/median_home_value?year=2024&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Suppressed cells (too few students to report) are NULL, never zero.
Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

Universe: OWNER-OCCUPIED housing units only - renters' housing is invisible in this measure. Medians never sum or average across geographies. Published medians are censored at the scale ends and preserved as-is (see the jam_values listing on the column): 2000001 means '$2,000,000 or more' and 9999 means '$9,999 or less'. A NULL median means the source could not compute one; this happens only at census-tract grain (about 3 percent of tract medians across 2020-2024, concentrated in tracts with very few owner-occupied units). State, county, and school-district medians publish everywhere. ACS 5-year period estimates: the year column is the vintage END year and each estimate pools five years of survey responses (2024 = 2020-2024). Consecutive vintages share about 80% of their sample, so the series is heavily smoothed - never difference overlapping vintages as if they were annual change. Estimates are survey-based and carry 90% margins of error (the *_moe columns); tract-level margins can be large relative to the estimate. All levels serve vintages 2020-2024 only, on 2020-vintage tract boundaries. State rows have NULL county_fips, district_code, and tract_geoid; county rows carry only county_fips, district rows only district_code, tract rows only tract_geoid. District rows cover the ~180 standard (city/county) districts only: the Census publishes school-district estimates at unified school district geography, which has no codes for charter schools, RESAs, or state agencies, and its few Census-only districts (e.g. the Fort Stewart military district) have no GCD district code and are dropped.