Attapulgus, Georgia.
Typical home $103,410 (+13.0% in a year). Bainbridge, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$131 (+32%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,895 +13%
- $91,515$103,410 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.
- Attapulgus$543
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Attapulgus, GA rose 13.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Attapulgus, Decatur County, Georgia
Attapulgus is a city of 454 people in Decatur County. Unemployment in Decatur County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Decatur County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Attapulgus is a very small city in Decatur County, in the southwest corner of Georgia, and most of the people who live there know one another. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights, and summers are long and hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Decatur County, the largest workplaces include Decatur County Schools, Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Lake Seminole, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away and is the best known of the nearby outdoor spots. Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away. So is Seminole State Park, a protected area that suits a day outdoors.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
What people in Decatur County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Decatur County had 8,635 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bainbridge International Paper weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Decatur County
- Decatur County SchoolsSchool district645FTE
- Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - GeorgiaAcorn squash farming, field, bedding plant and seed production479
- Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital322FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters291
- Shaw Industries GroupPolyester fibers and filaments manufacturing223
- Bainbridge John B. Sanfilippo & SonRoasted nuts and seeds manufacturing209
- BASF Corporation - AttapulgusKaolin, processing beyond beneficiation188
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,102 people in all across the county; Attapulgus has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Attapulgus’ 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 Decatur County and the Bainbridge, GA metro.
Attapulgus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Attapulgus$103,410
- 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 Attapulgus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Attapulgus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.