What salary do you need to live in Hinesville, GA?

The cost side of living in Hinesville

A one-bedroom in Hinesville rents for a median of $783 a month, utilities the tenant pays included; a two-bedroom goes for $1,116 and a three-bedroom for $1,311. Over a full year, the two-bedroom median comes to $13,392.

On the ownership side, the typical owner-occupied home is valued at $204,500. Against a median household income of $61,709, the ratio is 3.3× — one of the gentler home-price-to-income ratios in the country.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 93.9 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Hinesville has the buying power of roughly $106,459 at national average prices.

Income needed for each grade in Hinesville

For two bedrooms, $118,000 is where Hinesville turns Comfortable. Below that, $59,000 marks the start of Okay and $29,000 the start of Tight; under $29,000 the score reads Stretched. Rent at the Comfortable line is 11% of gross pay.

Royal, the top band, starts at $375,000. At that income rent is 4% of pay and the median home 0.5× income.

These lines come straight from the calculator's formula: the income is raised until the two-bedroom score crosses each cutoff, then rounded up to the next $1,000.

Hinesville at four common salaries

On $75,000, a one-bedroom scores 58 and a three-bedroom 50, both Okay; the extra bedrooms cost points but not a grade.

The two-bedroom column turns Comfortable at the $150,000 row. One row up, $100,000 scores 60.

Where Hinesville falls nationally

On price level Hinesville is 182nd of 387 (1 = most expensive); on two-bedroom rent it is 202nd, and on median home value 292nd. The two rankings agree, both falling in the middle half.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Glens Falls, NY ($1,116) and Grand Junction, CO ($1,115).

Hinesville next to Georgia and similar metros

Compared with Georgia as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Hinesville is 16% lower ($1,116 vs. $1,326) and the median home is 33% lower ($204,500 vs. $303,300).

Scored the same way, the statewide figures turn Comfortable at $163,000, so Hinesville needs $45,000 less than Georgia overall.

If Hinesville is on your list, Warner Robins, GA, Chattanooga, TN-GA, and Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC are the most similar Georgia metros by two-bedroom rent and price level; the table shows where each turns Comfortable.

Does the typical Hinesville income clear the bar?

What about a typical local household? Census puts median household income here at $61,709, which grades Okay (47) for a two-bedroom at the median rent. That falls $56,291 short of the $118,000 Comfortable line, a reminder that the typical household here spends a larger share on housing than the Comfortable band allows. For Georgia as a whole, the median household income of $77,353 scores 44 against statewide rents. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

Treat every number here as a pre-tax, public-data estimate rather than financial advice.