Axson, Georgia.
Typical home $125,334 (+11.5% in a year). Douglas, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$291 (+79%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $12,889 +11%
- $112,446$125,334 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,179 +7%
- $117,156$125,334 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.
- Axson$658
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 51 years.
Typical home values in Axson, GA rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Axson, Atkinson County, Georgia
Axson, in Atkinson County, had 360 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Atkinson County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Atkinson County work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Axson is a very small community in Atkinson County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are typically valued well below what the national market would suggest, and household incomes across the county sit on the lower side. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are long and hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Atkinson County, the largest workplaces include Atkinson County Schools, Langboard MDF, which makes reconstituted wood boards, and First String Space, which builds manufactured classrooms. The county's job count grew over the past year, and unemployment has stayed low, edging up slightly from a year ago. A typical commute is a fairly long drive each way.
Things to do. The countryside around Axson is mostly rivers, forest and protected land, all a longer drive away. The Satilla River is the best known of the nearby waters, and General Coffee State Park and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas for walking and spending time outdoors. Dixon Memorial State Forest offers more open woodland, also a longer drive from town.
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- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Atkinson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atkinson County had 2,166 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Homerville North weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atkinson County
- Atkinson County SchoolsSchool district254FTE
- First String Space Inc Railroad AveManufactured classrooms manufacturing223
- Langboard MDFReconstituted wood sheets and boards manufacturing143
- First String Space Inc Albany AveManufactured classrooms manufacturing135
- TLC MouldingMoldings, wood and covered wood, manufacturing110
- Specialized StructuresManufactured classrooms manufacturing100
- Cady Bag CompanyBags, plastics, made from purchased woven plastics77
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 788 people in all across the county; Axson 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Axson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Atkinson County and the Douglas, GA metro.
Axson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Axson$125,334
- 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 Axson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Axson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.