Georgia eviction research

What a filing means in Georgia

An eviction filing is a court case asking a judge for possession of a rental unit. It is not a lockout. Self-help lockouts, utility shutoffs, and removing belongings without a court process are illegal. Local courts and executing offices set their own calendars — we do not publish guaranteed timelines.

Georgia dispossessory cases are filed in the magistrate court of the county where the property is located. The statutory tenant answer period is 7 days from service. A judgment does not restore possession; a separate writ of possession is required. Writs are executed by the county sheriff, except in Fulton County where the Marshal's Department executes them.

Georgia is also where EvictIQ’s operational case-flow measures are concentrated. Those measures describe EvictIQ completed cases, not every dispossessory filed in the state. See measure definitions.

None of this is legal advice. Statutes, local rules, and court practice change.

Major cities

3 listed cities have a cited Eviction Lab 2016 judgment count or rate on the city page. State ranking extract.

• Athens-Clarke County
• Atlanta
• Augusta-Richmond County
• Columbus
• Macon-Bibb County
• Sandy Springs
• Savannah
• South Fulton

Counties and county-equivalents

Every Georgia county-equivalent has a page. Templates are intentionally thin: a filing is a court case, not a lockout, and we do not invent a county filing total when we do not have one.

All 159 Georgia counties

• Appling County
• Atkinson County
• Bacon County
• Baker County
• Baldwin County
• Banks County
• Barrow County
• Bartow County
• Ben Hill County
• Berrien County
• Bibb County
• Bleckley County
• Brantley County
• Brooks County
• Bryan County
• Bulloch County
• Burke County
• Butts County
• Calhoun County
• Camden County
• Candler County
• Carroll County
• Catoosa County
• Charlton County

Showing the first 24 alphabetically. Use the full county index for the rest.