Commercial Real Estate Market in Waycross, GA
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
69 active listings and 1,713 off-market properties in Waycross, GA. Commercial property asks $68/SF to buy and $8.04/SF/Yr to lease (based on 3 listings).
Market Trends
Waycross, GA spans 349.9 square miles in Ware County, Georgia. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office space in Waycross, GA has a median asking sale price of $95/SF (based on 8 listings). Vacancy runs 20.2% across the South region in 2025, up from 14.4% in 2019.
Retail
Retail space in Waycross, GA has a median asking sale price of $69/SF. Vacancy runs 5.4% across the South region in 2025, down from 7% in 2020.
Industrial
Industrial vacancy in Waycross, GA 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 Waycross, GA has a median asking sale price of $68/SF (based on 5 listings). 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 54%
- Commercial 20.4%
- Industrial 19.2%
- Civic 5.3%
- Mixed use 0.7%
- Open space 0.5%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
Waycross, GA zones 7,482 acres across 18 districts. Commercial zoning covers 20.4% of zoned land, residential 54%, open space 0.5% and industrial 19.2%. The largest single district is Highway Commercial at 17.3%. For commercial buyers the practical constraint is that only 39.6% of land carries a commercial or industrial designation.
SECTION 707 C-2 HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL 707.1 - INTENT OF DISTRICT The C-2 Highway Commercial District is established as a district to contain as principal uses those commercial and service activities which will serve the tourist and automobile drive-in trade. The specific intentions of the regulatory provisions as applied to this district are to: (a) Encourage t…
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Waycross, GA has 36,392 residents in 15,876 households. Density runs 104 people per square mile. Median household income here is $48,162 and median gross rent $796 a month.
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 52 active for-sale and 17 active for-lease listings in Waycross, GA. The medians are based on 29 of the for-sale and 3 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: 7,482 zoned acres across 18 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 and industrial vacancy is reported at South region level.
- 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
