Barnesville, Georgia.
Typical home $256,855 (+4.7% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$848 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,560 +5%
- $245,294$256,855 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,879 +40%
- $182,976$256,855 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.
- Barnesville$1,348
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Barnesville, GA rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barnesville, Lamar County, Georgia
Barnesville is a city of 6,292 people in Lamar County. Half its households earn more than $57,411 a year and half less, against $67,062 across Lamar County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Lamar County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Lamar 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barnesville is a small city in Lamar County, Georgia, where homes are about as likely to be rented as lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a modest share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Lamar County, the largest workplaces include Lamar County Schools, Gordon State College and Continental Tire the Americas. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a short drive.
Things to do. For time outdoors, High Falls State Park and Indian Springs State Park are protected areas a longer drive away, and the Ocmulgee River is a river a longer drive away as well. Race fans can head to Atlanta Motor Speedway, a race track also a longer drive away.
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- 2,163households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Lamar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamar County had 4,462 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the The Rock Rch weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamar County
- Lamar County SchoolsSchool district339FTE
- Gordon State CollegeUniversity or college307
- Continental Tire the AmericasTire cord and fabric, all materials, manufacturing287
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores194
- Langdale Forest Products Co. BarnesvilleBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts155
- K & K ManufacturingTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis41
- Bankston LumberHome centers, building materials32
- Piedmont Green PowerElectric power generation, biomass26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 783 people in all across the county; Barnesville has two 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BarnesvilleRelatively 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 Barnesville’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 Lamar County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Barnesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barnesville$256,855
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Barnesville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Barnesville28.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barnesville52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barnesville15
Zip codes with a Barnesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barnesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.