Brinson, Georgia.
Typical home $175,971 (+5.3% in a year). Bainbridge, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$504 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,917 +5%
- $167,054$175,971 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,994 +18%
- $148,977$175,971 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.
- Brinson$924
- 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 Brinson, GA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brinson, Decatur County, Georgia
Brinson is a town of 217 people in Decatur County. Half its households earn more than $73,750 a year and half less, against $53,317 across Decatur County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Decatur County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Decatur 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brinson is a very small town in Decatur County, in the southwest corner of Georgia. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run well above the county's, with a lower share of people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Decatur County, the largest workplaces include Decatur County Schools, Memorial Hospital and Walmart. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was this time last year.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor destinations are all a longer drive away. Lake Seminole is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, Seminole State Park is a protected area on its shore, and Spring Creek is a river that runs through the surrounding countryside.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Decatur County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Decatur County had 8,635 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donalsonville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Decatur County
- Decatur County SchoolsSchool district645FTE
- Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - GeorgiaAcorn squash farming, field, bedding plant and seed production479
- Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital322FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters291
- Shaw Industries GroupPolyester fibers and filaments manufacturing223
- Bainbridge John B. Sanfilippo & SonRoasted nuts and seeds manufacturing209
- BASF Corporation - AttapulgusKaolin, processing beyond beneficiation188
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,102 people in all across the county; Brinson 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brinson’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 Decatur County and the Bainbridge, GA metro.
Brinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brinson$175,971
- 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 Brinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.