Cobb County Housing Dashboard

We’ve got housing prices on our minds. Again.

Rising housing costs, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been well established. Prices for new and older homes alike have been steadily increasing in many parts of the country. In a June post, we showcased a new housing dashboard for Forsyth County built in the Python framework Streamlit (and another for Fulton County in early August). We have created a sister dashboard in the same style, this time for Cobb County.

As before, the dashboard leverages data from the county’s Qpublic open records database which we have collected, geocoded, and aggregated to a custom geography level. The geographies shown closely mirror our proprietary “Super District” geography, which are groupings of Census tracts. They approximate city- and region-sized sections of the county for more granular analysis.

The dashboard below features an expandable left-hand side panel with data filters for transaction time frame and city/region (unlike previous editions, this dashboard does not feature a filter for construction vintage due to limitations of the data). Depending on your screen size, you may need to scroll down to see the entire embedded dashboard. Darker shades of city/regions correspond to higher median sales price per square foot. In addition to the embedded dashboard below, you can access the standalone dashboard app here.

Here are a few pertinent findings highlighted by the dashboard:

Happy data exploring, and be on the lookout for dashboards showcasing other metro Atlanta counties in the future!