Blakely, Georgia.
Typical home $126,819 (+7.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$325 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,639 +7%
- $118,180$126,819 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,979 +18%
- $107,840$126,819 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.
- Blakely$666
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Blakely, GA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blakely, Early County, Georgia
Blakely is a city of 5,371 people in Early County. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Early County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blakely is a small city in southwest Georgia and the seat of Early County. Fewer homes here are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and household incomes in the county sit below what is typical nationally. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehousing and utilities. Among the largest workplaces across Early County are Cedar Springs Paper, Early County Schools and Birdsong Peanuts Blakely. Jobs across the county slipped over the past year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Kolomoki Mounds State Park, an archaeological site, is a short drive away, and Breastworks Branch, a river, runs in or beside town. George T. Bagby State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are mild and summers hot, so outdoor visits are comfortable for much of the year.
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- 1,849households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Early County had 3,540 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Gaines weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Early County
- Cedar Springs Paper336
- Early County SchoolsSchool district274FTE
- Birdsong Peanuts BlakelyPeanut shelling150
- Republic Conduit Inc. - Cedar SpringsConduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel140
- Lifebrite Community Hospital of EarlCritical access hospital92FTE
- Blakely Golden Peanut Oilseed50
- Food LionGrocery store45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 721 people in all across the county; Blakely has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blakely’s 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 Early County.
Blakely home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blakely$126,819
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Blakely 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.
- Blakely25.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blakely28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Blakely5
Zip codes with a Blakely address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blakely — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.