A slowdown in self-storage construction is afoot in markets across the U.S., but metro Atlanta apparently hasn’t gotten the memo, according to industry observers.
Metro Atlanta packed on more new supply of self-storage space in 2025—in excess of 2.2 million square feet—than all other U.S. markets, including the larger metro areas of Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
That’s according to year-end data compiled by StorageCafe, a national storage space marketplace, that showed new U.S. supply in 2025 totaled roughly 51 million square feet, accounting for 2.4 percent of existing space.
Of that, metro Atlanta saw nearly 200,000 more square feet of self-storage space delivered in 2025 than the next top market, Phoenix.
Only Atlanta and Phoenix topped 2 million square feet of deliveries this year, per StorageCafe’s findings.
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Metro Atlanta now counts north of 54 million square feet of self-storage inventory overall—or nearly 10 square feet per capita. (Contributing to that tally in 2025 was a controversial, nearly windowless Public Storage fortress at the cusp of Piedmont Park and the Beltline’s Eastside Trail, two of intown’s most popular walkable attractions.)
Self-storage construction around Atlanta bucked a national trend that saw deliveries dip by 21 percent year-over-year.
The average monthly rental rate for storage units in metro Atlanta is $120 right now—the least expensive of all markets in the new-construction top five, per StorageCafe.
Elsewhere in Georgia, growing Savannah saw 267,700 square feet of self-storage space delivered in 2025, and Athens packed on 95,800 square feet.
Overall, statewide supply growth was most concentrated in South and Southwest markets, with Florida, Texas, California, Georgia, and North Carolina, respectively, leading the way, per StorageCafe.
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