Toilet Repair in Georgia

Weighted across 2,143,606 occupied homes. Separately, 44% of the state’s 2,339,753 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 118 towns we route in here, 0 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 63 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 32 are strongly owner-occupied and 11 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Georgia

Georgia licenses are issued by the Georgia Secretary of State, Division of Master and Journeyman Plumbers, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Acworth 79% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
• Alpharetta 73% owner-occupied · 25% pre-1990
• Alto 70% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Appling 86% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Arlington 65% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Athens 44% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Atlanta 48% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Attapulgus 79% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Auburn 83% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Augusta 52% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Austell 53% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Avondale Estates 65% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Bainbridge 59% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Baldwin 76% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Ball Ground 88% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Bethlehem 81% owner-occupied · 13% pre-1990
• Blakely 68% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Blythe 69% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Bowersville 66% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Braselton 82% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Brinson 66% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Buford 75% owner-occupied · 20% pre-1990
• Cairo 59% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Camilla 55% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Canon 83% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Canton 75% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Clarkesville 84% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Clermont 89% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Cleveland 76% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Climax 79% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Colbert 86% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Colquitt 67% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Comer 75% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Commerce 65% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Conyers 76% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Cornelia 66% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Cumming 86% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Dacula 86% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Dahlonega 77% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Damascus 95% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Danielsville 82% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Dawsonville 78% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Dearing 65% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Decatur 62% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Demorest 70% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Donalsonville 73% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Duluth 54% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Ellenwood 77% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Ellijay 80% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Evans 87% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Fairburn 61% owner-occupied · 26% pre-1990
• Fayetteville 83% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Flowery Branch 78% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Gainesville 65% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Gillsville 79% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Grayson 80% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Grovetown 72% owner-occupied · 17% pre-1990
• Hampton 74% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Harlem 79% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Hartwell 74% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Helen 80% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Hephzibah 73% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Hiram 71% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Homer 70% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Hoschton 87% owner-occupied · 11% pre-1990
• Hull 73% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Iron City 82% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Jakin 79% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Jasper 79% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Jefferson 83% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Jonesboro 58% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Kennesaw 69% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Lawrenceville 67% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Lilburn 76% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Locust Grove 83% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Lula 77% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Mableton 78% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Marietta 69% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Maysville 85% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• McDonough 73% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Meigs 79% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Moreland 88% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Morrow 45% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Mount Airy 81% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Murrayville 80% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Newnan 71% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Newton 68% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Nicholson 76% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Norcross 36% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Oakwood 60% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Ochlocknee 78% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Palmetto 66% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Peachtree City 73% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Peachtree Corners 48% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Pelham 67% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Pendergrass 86% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Powder Springs 85% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Rex 73% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Riverdale 57% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Roswell 75% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Sautee Nacoochee 90% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Senoia 94% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
• Sharpsburg 93% owner-occupied · 25% pre-1990
• Smyrna 54% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Snellville 82% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Statham 85% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
• Stockbridge 61% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Stone Mountain 85% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Suwanee 79% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• Talmo 78% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Thomasville 59% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Thomson 65% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Tucker 67% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Tyrone 91% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Union City 42% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Whigham 75% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Winder 79% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Woodstock 78% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990