Chain-link fence cost in Georgia

Basic, standard or premium: Georgia prices

Bands overlap on purpose, since a good standard job can cost as much as a light premium one. Below are the three bands for the default size, then a grid from backyard (100 linear ft) to full lot (300 linear ft).

Why two Georgia quotes can differ

• Height

  A 4-ft fence runs $10-$20 per linear foot; 6- to 8-ft backyard fences run $15-$40+ (HomeGuide).

• Coating

  Black or green vinyl-coated mesh costs more than galvanized.

• Gates

  Gates are $80-$1,000+ before installation. Rolling or slide gates are the expensive end.

• Survey

  A land survey ($300-$900) is worth it before you put a fence near a boundary.

Add-ons priced for Georgia

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 0.91 for Georgia, which is the average of the area's wage index (0.82) and goods price index (0.99). The estimator above can add them to your total.

Other Georgia jobs that often go with chain-link fence

Each project weights the trades differently, so Georgia's wage level does not push every price by the same amount. Compared with the US midpoint, vinyl fence is −5% and gravel driveway −10%.

Wages behind the Georgia number

Georgia's labor line is priced from 2 trades, each compared with its US median wage. After weighting by each trade's share of the work, the state comes out at 0.82 times the national level.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 60%) the local median is $18.74 an hour, which is 17% below the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $16.93 and $22.57 an hour. BLS counts 27,800 of them working in the state, 56.9 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is thinner than average.

Carpenters (47-2031), 40% of the weighting: a median of $23.72 an hour, 19% below the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $20.29 and $28.00 an hour. About 9,190 work in the state. That is 18.8 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 43.1 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

A crew paid at the 75th percentile for construction laborers ($22.57 an hour) would add about $240 to the statewide midpoint; one at the 25th percentile ($16.93) would take off about $110. Use that as a rough guide to how far a bid can sit from our midpoint on wages alone.

BLS counts 4,889,170 jobs across Georgia (May 2025), which is 3.1% of US employment.

Chain-link fence cost by metro in Georgia

2 of the 10 metros sit above the statewide midpoint of $3,400, and the top-to-bottom gap is 14%. Each row prices the default size with that metro's own BLS wages and BEA price levels, so the gap between rows is real local variation rather than a flat markup.

Georgia versus the states around it

Georgia ranks 46 of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for chain-link fence, where 1 is the most expensive. The costliest is Hawaii at $5,300 and the cheapest Arkansas at $3,250, both for 150 linear ft at the midpoint. Georgia sits at $3,400. The five states closest by workforce center are listed below.

When Georgia weather lets you install

Weather decides when exterior installation can happen, and Georgia is not uniform. The table uses NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals from the weather station nearest each metro we cover, and counts the months that are neither cold nor hot enough to complicate the job.

Gainesville has the longest comfortable season of the metros we cover in Georgia at 12 months; Albany has the shortest at 9 (September through May). Rainfall runs from 45 inches a year in Augusta to 55 inches in Dalton.

We do not adjust prices by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. Timing is still worth raising when you collect bids.