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Ailey, Georgia.

Typical home $139,584 (+2.5% in a year). Vidalia, GA metro.

What it costs per month · Ailey $733/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$205 (+39%) since Feb 2022.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $3,406 +3%
$136,178$139,584 since Sep 2025

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Ailey $733 Georgia $1,727 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Ailey$733
  • Georgia$1,727
  • United States$1,922

Typical home values in Ailey, GA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Ailey, Montgomery County, Georgia

Ailey is a city of 519 people in Montgomery County. Half its households earn more than $48,750 a year and half less, against $51,941 across Montgomery County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then construction.

People 519 in the 2020 census
Household income $48,750 the median, give or take $10,692 · Montgomery County: $51,941
Unemployment 4.8% Montgomery County, August 2026; 4.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Ailey for the Census survey to measure.

Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.

What it’s like

The place. Ailey is a very small Georgia city in Montgomery County, with a population that fits easily on a few quiet streets. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.

Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, transport and warehousing, and retail. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery County Schools, Brewton-Parker College and Builders FirstSource. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.

Things to do. Ochwalkee Creek, a river, is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Little Ocmulgee State Park, a protected area with room to walk and spend a day outdoors. Jack Hill State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive away.

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  • 6%below the poverty line
  • 6%work from home

What people in Montgomery County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care27%
  • Building trades12%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities11%
  • Shops (retail)9%
  • Manufacturing9%
  • Government8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 1,518 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 60° and 38°; warmest in July, 92° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 60° 38° F M A M J J 92° 72° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 60° and 38°; warmest in July, 92° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 60° 38° F M A M J J 92° 72° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazlehurst weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Montgomery County

  1. Montgomery County SchoolsSchool district193FTE
  2. Brewton-Parker CollegeUniversity or college168
  3. Builders FirstSourceCustom architectural woodwork and millwork manufacturing64
  4. Builders FirstSourceLumber plywood millwork and wood panel merchant wholesalers40
  5. Southern Crown Partners LLC - VIDBeer merchant wholesalers35
  6. Compass Group31

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 170 people in all across the county; Ailey has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. LightningRelatively high
  2. Heat wavesRelatively high
  3. TornadoesRelatively high
  4. DroughtRelatively moderate
  5. HurricanesRelatively moderate
  6. Strong windRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ailey’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Montgomery County and the Vidalia, GA metro.

Ailey home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Ailey $139,584 Georgia $329,115 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Ailey$139,584
  • Georgia$329,115
  • United States$366,157

When this market ran hot

Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.

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Zip codes with a Ailey address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ailey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.