Commercial Real Estate Market in Dalton, GA
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
100 active listings and 2,956 off-market properties in Dalton, GA. Commercial property asks $141/SF to buy and $14.53/SF/Yr to lease.
Market Trends
Dalton, GA spans 175.4 square miles in Whitfield County, Georgia. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office space in Dalton, GA has a median asking sale price of $211/SF (based on 6 listings). Vacancy runs 20.2% across the South region in 2025, up from 14.4% in 2019.
Retail
Retail space in Dalton, GA has a median asking sale price of $171/SF (based on 6 listings). Vacancy runs 5.4% across the South region in 2025, down from 7% in 2020.
Industrial
Industrial space in Dalton, GA has a median asking sale price of $54/SF (based on 3 listings). Vacancy runs 7.9% across the South region in 2025, up from 6% in 2019. Nearly 2.3x the 2022 low of 3.5%.
Multifamily
Multifamily space in Dalton, GA has a median asking sale price of $182/SF. Vacancy runs 11.3% across the South region in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Residential 56.8%
- Industrial 21.7%
- Commercial 15.9%
- Planned_development 4.4%
- Mixed use 0.8%
- Civic 0.4%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
Dalton, GA zones 13,130 acres across 28 districts. Commercial zoning covers 15.9% of zoned land, residential 56.8% and industrial 21.7%. The largest single district is Heavy Manufacturing at 21.3%. For commercial buyers the practical constraint is that only 37.6% of land carries a commercial or industrial designation.
This district is established to provide suitable areas for general industrial, carpet manufacturing, distribution, or warehousing activities and/or other intensive activities of industrial nature which may generate external traffic and may include moderate amounts of environmental pollution in the form of traffic, noise, odors, smoke, fumes, glare, or heat
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Dalton, GA has 80,979 residents in 30,597 households. Density runs 462 people per square mile. Median household income here is $60,427 and median gross rent $921 a month.
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 67 active for-sale and 33 active for-lease listings in Dalton, GA. The medians are based on 41 of the for-sale and 18 of the for-lease listings, those that state a price or rent per square foot. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 13,130 zoned acres across 28 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at South region level, retail vacancy is reported at South region level, industrial vacancy is reported at South region level and asking prices run materially above recent closed pricing.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
