Blythe, Georgia.
Typical home $232,596 (+5.6% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$630 (+107%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $12,296 +6%
- $220,300$232,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,256 +27%
- $183,340$232,596 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.
- Blythe$1,221
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Blythe, GA rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blythe, Richmond County, Georgia
Blythe is a city of 744 people in Richmond County. Half its households earn more than $48,750 a year and half less, against $55,637 across Richmond County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Richmond County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Richmond 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blythe is a very small city in Richmond County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a county with a large university. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rare event, and summers are long and hot, with rain spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Richmond County, the largest workplaces include Richmond County Schools, Augusta University and AU Medical Center. A small share of people work from home, and the county's job count has stayed about level from one year to the next.
Things to do. Fort Gordon, a fort, and Augusta International Raceway, a race track, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Morris Museum of Art, a museum, and Lake Strom Thurmond, a large reservoir. Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, a protected area, is also within a longer drive.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Richmond County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richmond County had 104,220 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta Bush Field Airport weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richmond County
- Richmond County SchoolsSchool district5,317FTE
- Augusta UniversityUniversity or college5,158
- AU Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,953FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,665
- University Health ServicesGeneral hospital2,100FTE
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services1,729
- Textron Specialized Vehicles - Augusta EastGolf carts, powered, manufacturing1,345
- Doctors Hospital of AugustaGeneral hospital1,277FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 157 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,636 people in all across the county; Blythe has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Blythe’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 Richmond County and the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
Blythe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blythe$232,596
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blythe8
Zip codes with a Blythe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blythe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.