Alston, Georgia.
Typical home $202,127 (+10.2% in a year). Vidalia, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$418 (+65%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $18,766 +10%
- $183,361$202,127 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.
- Alston$1,061
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Alston, GA rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alston, Montgomery County, Georgia
Alston is a town of 178 people in Montgomery County. 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.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alston is a very small town in Montgomery County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued below what many Americans would expect to pay elsewhere, and household incomes across Montgomery County are modest. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents of Alston work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with the building trades, transport and warehousing, and shops also employing many. Very few work from home. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery County Schools, Brewton-Parker College and Builders FirstSource. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Alligator Creek, a river a short drive away, is the closest spot for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Jack Hill State Park and Little Ocmulgee State Park, both protected areas, along with the Ohoopee River and the Little Ocmulgee River. With little or no snow, the cooler months are mild enough for getting outdoors.
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- 2%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
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
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, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Montgomery County SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Brewton-Parker CollegeUniversity or college168
- Builders FirstSourceCustom architectural woodwork and millwork manufacturing64
- Builders FirstSourceLumber plywood millwork and wood panel merchant wholesalers40
- Southern Crown Partners LLC - VIDBeer merchant wholesalers35
- 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; Alston has none 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Alston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alston$202,127
- 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.
Zip codes with a Alston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alston — 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.