Five Cities Compared: Active Listings, Prices, and Listing-Removal Velocity in Georgia's Used-Car Market
From Tbilisi's deep but slow-moving inventory to Marneuli's fast turnover — a data-driven city-by-city breakdown, with sample-size caveats.
Active listings count by city (June 2026)
Tbilisi: volume, premium stock, and slower turnover
Tbilisi is the uncontested centre of Georgia's used-car market. With 14,153 active listings in the AutoBridge snapshot, it accounts for the great majority of the country's online automotive stock. That scale, however, comes with a measurable cost to transaction speed. Cars in the capital have a median of 17.4 days until their listings are removed from the marketplace — backed by a robust velocity sample of n=8,328. The sheer depth of the market creates search friction and intense competition among sellers, stretching listing lifetimes. The median price of $15,000 and a relatively low median mileage of 85,634 km point to a higher share of newer, better-specified vehicles than in smaller cities.
Tbilisi: volume, premium stock, and slower turnover
Tbilisi is the uncontested centre of Georgia's used-car market. With 14,153 active listings in the AutoBridge snapshot, it accounts for the great majority of the country's online automotive stock. That scale, however, comes with a measurable cost to transaction speed. Cars in the capital have a median of 17.4 days until their listings are removed from the marketplace — backed by a robust velocity sample of n=8,328. The sheer depth of the market creates search friction and intense competition among sellers, stretching listing lifetimes. The median price of $15,000 and a relatively low median mileage of 85,634 km point to a higher share of newer, better-specified vehicles than in smaller cities.
Active listings count by city (June 2026)
Marneuli: the fastest measured velocity — with caveats
Marneuli records the shortest median days to removal in the dataset: 6.9 days. Its 86 active listings carry a median price of $9,400 and a median mileage of 93,700 km. The inventory footprint here is small — this is not a large hub market but a compact local segment — yet within that segment, listings are removed quickly. The velocity figure is striking, but the removed-listing sample behind it is thin at n=86, so this number is indicative rather than definitive. Some observers attribute Marneuli's fast turnover to its proximity to the Armenian and Azerbaijani borders and a role in cross-border trade flows, but this dataset contains no route or destination data to confirm that hypothesis. What the numbers show clearly is that lower-priced, moderate-mileage stock is delisted faster in Marneuli than anywhere else in this sample.
Batumi and Kutaisi: a similar mid-market pace
Batumi and Kutaisi sit in a remarkably similar band. Batumi, with 459 active listings, carries a median price of $13,000 and a median mileage of 122,000 km; its median days to removal is 11.0 (n=351). Kutaisi, with 171 listings, shows a median price of $8,600 and a median mileage of 150,000 km, with median days to removal of 11.1 (n=192). The two cities are effectively tied on velocity despite the price differential — Batumi commands a premium, likely reflecting its coastal location and port-side import activity, while Kutaisi serves as the hub for Western Georgia's local demand.
Rustavi: a small local sample in a city known for wholesale trade
Rustavi is home to one of the region's largest wholesale car markets, yet local residential listings within the city total only 66 in the snapshot. These carry a median price of $10,450 and a median mileage of 110,000 km. The measured median days to removal is 12.7 — but this rests on a removed-listing sample of just n=30, the thinnest in this comparison. That figure should be treated as indicative. The apparent velocity gap between Rustavi and the regional cities sits well within the uncertainty range of such a small sample.
Median days to removal by city (June 2026)
The clearest finding: Tbilisi is structurally slower
The most reliable takeaway from this dataset is the gap between Tbilisi (17.4 days, n=8,328) and every other city in the comparison. Both the large sample and the consistent direction of the difference make this finding robust. The rankings among the regional cities — Marneuli at 6.9 days, Batumi at 11.0, Kutaisi at 11.1, Rustavi at 12.7 — are more tentative. In particular, the Marneuli and Rustavi figures (n=86 and n=30) should not be over-interpreted; they describe the current sample, not a structural law.
The clearest finding: Tbilisi is structurally slower
The most reliable takeaway from this dataset is the gap between Tbilisi (17.4 days, n=8,328) and every other city in the comparison. Both the large sample and the consistent direction of the difference make this finding robust. The rankings among the regional cities — Marneuli at 6.9 days, Batumi at 11.0, Kutaisi at 11.1, Rustavi at 12.7 — are more tentative. In particular, the Marneuli and Rustavi figures (n=86 and n=30) should not be over-interpreted; they describe the current sample, not a structural law.
Median days to removal by city (June 2026)
Methodology
AutoBridge active-listing snapshot as of June 30, 2026; all figures are raw medians, no statistical correction applied. City data: Tbilisi 14,153 listings, median price $15,000, median mileage 85,634 km, median 17.4 days to removal (n=8,328); Marneuli 86 listings, $9,400, 93,700 km, 6.9 days (n=86 — indicative); Batumi 459 listings, $13,000, 122,000 km, 11.0 days (n=351); Kutaisi 171 listings, $8,600, 150,000 km, 11.1 days (n=192); Rustavi 66 listings, $10,450, 110,000 km, 12.7 days (n=30 — indicative). Velocity sample sizes differ from listing counts as only listings removed within the observation window contribute. Listing removal is an upper-bound proxy for turnover — most disappearances are not confirmed sales; they may reflect listing expiry, re-listing under a new ID, or seller deactivation.
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