Avera, Georgia.
Typical home $150,769 (+3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$154 (+24%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,645 +4%
- $145,125$150,769 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.
- Avera$791
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Avera, GA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia
Avera is a city of 223 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avera is a very small city in Jefferson County, Georgia, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors are likely to know one another. Residents are somewhat older than in many towns, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and winters are mild with little or no snow, while summers turn hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Most people who live in Avera work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Coastal Processing, Jefferson County Schools and Battle Lumber Co. Very few residents work from home, and the county's job count has held about steady from last year.
Things to do. Within a longer drive, Hamburg State Park offers a look at local history as a museum-style site, and the Little Ogeechee River is there for time by the water. Fort Gordon, a military fort, is also a longer drive away, as is the Mitchell Depot Historical Museum for anyone who likes regional history.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 4,890 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisville East weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Coastal ProcessingMeat products made from a combination of poultry and other meats407
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district367FTE
- Battle Lumber CoSawmills333
- Jefferson HospitalGeneral hospital122FTE
- Wadley SNFSkilled nursing facilities89
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores73
- Fulghum IndustriesChippers, stationary, manufacturing72
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,146 people in all across the county; Avera 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avera’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 Jefferson County.
Avera home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avera$150,769
- 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 Avera address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avera — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.