Arcade, Georgia.
Typical home $339,513 (+1.5% in a year). Jefferson, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,048 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,902 +1%
- $334,611$339,513 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,365 +24%
- $274,148$339,513 since Sep 2021
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.
- Arcade$1,782
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Arcade, GA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arcade, Jackson County, Georgia
Arcade is a city of 1,884 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $68,375 a year and half less, against $89,544 across Jackson County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arcade is a small city in Jackson County, Georgia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is somewhat older than in many towns. Incomes here are below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults than in many places. Winters are mild and cool, summers are hot, and snow is rare while rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Commutes tend to be long, and some people work from home. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are SK Battery, Amazon and Jackson County Schools.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive brings you to Gresham Motorsports Park, a race track, and to the Crawford W. Long Museum. Mulberry River and Walnut Creek are also a short drive away for time near the water. A longer drive leads to Lake Lanier, a large reservoir.
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- 635households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 43,619 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danielsville weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- SK BatteryLithium batteries manufacturing3,127
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,643
- Jackson County SchoolsSchool district1,490FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,445
- H.G. Georgia MerchantsGeneral warehousing and storage1,152
- 85 BraseltonFamily clothing stores908
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing871
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage729
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 107 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,747 people in all across the county; Arcade has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of ArcadeRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arcade’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 Jackson County and the Jefferson, GA metro.
Arcade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arcade$339,513
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arcade6
Zip codes with a Arcade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arcade — 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.