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

What housing costs in Macon

Median gross rent, meaning contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities, runs $906, $1,023 and $1,100 a month for one, two and three bedrooms across Macon-Bibb County, GA. The largest of those is 21% more than the smallest.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $188,300. Against a median household income of $59,526, the ratio is 3.2× — 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 88.5 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Macon has the buying power of roughly $112,959 at national average prices.

How much you need to earn in Macon

The salary lines for a two-bedroom household land at $23,000 for Tight, $48,000 for Okay and $95,000 for Comfortable. The gap between the Okay and Comfortable lines alone is $47,000, which says how much extra income it takes to make housing feel roomy here rather than merely workable.

Reaching Royal takes $272,000 — 2.9× the Comfortable line — because the last points come slowly once rent is already a small share.

How they were found: the same scoring function the calculator runs was evaluated at rising incomes until each cutoff was crossed, and the crossing rounded up to a whole $1,000.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Macon

Choosing a bigger place in Macon at $75,000 trims the score from 60 to 57 without leaving Okay.

Read down the two-bedroom column and the first Comfortable row is $100,000, consistent with the $95,000 line above.

How Macon ranks among 387 metros

Ranked against all 387 metros, Macon sits 322nd on overall price level and 271st on the two-bedroom rent median, counting from the most expensive. Its median home value ranks 325th.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Burlington, NC ($1,023) and Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH ($1,021).

Macon in a Georgia context

Compared with Georgia as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Macon is 23% lower ($1,023 vs. $1,326) and the median home is 38% lower ($188,300 vs. $303,300).

The Georgia figure for the Comfortable line, using state medians, is $163,000 against $95,000 for Macon.

The nearest matches in Georgia, judged on rent and price parity together, are Columbus, GA-AL, Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC, and Valdosta, GA.

The median Macon household

A household at the Macon median income of $59,526 would see a two-bedroom score of 52 — Okay — with rent at 21% of income. Reaching Comfortable would take $35,474 more than the median household earns. 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.

Estimates use pre-tax income and public data; they are not financial advice.