Bristol, Georgia.
Typical home $234,782 (+11.0% in a year). Waycross, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$457 (+59%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $23,346 +11%
- $211,435$234,782 since Sep 2025
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.
- Bristol$1,232
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bristol, GA rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bristol, Appling County, Georgia
Bristol, in Appling County, had 122 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Appling County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Appling 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bristol is a very small community in Appling County, Georgia, among the smallest places a person could choose to live. Homes here are valued well above what incomes across the county would suggest, since household incomes in Appling County sit on the modest side. Winters are mild and almost free of snow, summers run hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Appling County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern Nuclear, Appling County Schools and Appling General Hospital. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Little Satilla Creek and Big Satilla Creek are both rivers a short drive away, good for time spent by the water. Farther afield, Laura S. Walker State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Dixon Memorial State Forest. Okefenokee Swamp Park, a museum also a longer drive away, is another outing for those willing to travel.
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What people in Appling County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Appling County had 7,777 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waycross Northeast weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Appling County
- Southern NuclearElectric power generation, nuclear830
- Appling County SchoolsSchool district540FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Interfor USDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts174
- Appling General HospitalGeneral hospital133FTE
- Triple Crown TrailersTrailer manufacturing100
- J Hiers CompanyCurbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction92
- Harima Specialty GroupAllyl resins manufacturing71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,879 people in all across the county; Bristol 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bristol’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 Appling County and the Waycross, GA metro.
Bristol home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bristol$234,782
- 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 Bristol address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bristol — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.