Bowman, Georgia.
Typical home $212,295 (+5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,858 +5%
- $201,437$212,295 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,983 +34%
- $158,313$212,295 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.
- Bowman$1,114
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bowman, GA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowman, Elbert County, Georgia
Bowman is a city of 872 people in Elbert County. Unemployment in Elbert County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elbert 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowman is a very small city in Elbert County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Elbert County sit below the national middle. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and the winters are mild, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. People in Bowman work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Elbert County, some of the largest workplaces are Elbert County Schools, Pilgrims Pride Elberton and Elbert Memorial Hospital. The typical trip to work is a fairly long one, and very few people do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Victoria Bryant State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Hudson River is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Lake Hartwell is a large reservoir, and The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is a botanical garden. Summers are hot and the coldest months are cool rather than harsh, so most of the year suits time outdoors.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Elbert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elbert County had 5,943 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elberton North weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elbert County
- Elbert County SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- Pilgrims Pride ElbertonPoultry processing407
- Bubba FoodsMeat products canning made from purchased carcasses175
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores167
- Elbert Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital153FTE
- Matthew's InternationalArchitectural sculptures, stone, manufacturing123
- WalmartDiscount department stores123
- Matthew's InternationalArchitectural sculptures, stone, manufacturing113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,539 people in all across the county; Bowman 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bowman’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 Elbert County.
Bowman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowman$212,295
- 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.
- Bowman13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bowman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.