Brooks, Georgia.
Typical home $592,691 (+2.3% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,685 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,553 +2%
- $579,138$592,691 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,668 +24%
- $478,023$592,691 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.
- Brooks$3,111
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Brooks, GA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brooks, Fayette County, Georgia
Brooks is a town of 568 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $105,714 a year and half less, against $111,978 across Fayette County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brooks is a very small town in Fayette County, Georgia, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are high. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain or melted snow falling steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, transport and warehousing, and retail also employing many. Across Fayette County, the largest workplaces include Fayette County Schools, Piedmont Fayette Hospital and Gerresheimer. The typical commute is a moderate one, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Atlanta Motor Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away, as is Lake McIntosh, a reservoir. Candler Field Museum is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, High Falls State Park is a protected area a longer drive off.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 48,483 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district2,736FTE
- Piedmont Fayette HospitalGeneral hospital1,844FTE
- GerresheimerPackaging, plastics, manufacturing600
- Hoshizaki America Peachtree CityRefrigeration equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing599
- Allison-Smith Co. - OSGOODElectrical contractors475
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
- Rinnai AmericaWarm air heating equipment merchant wholesalers328
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,138 people in all across the county; Brooks has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brooks’ 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 Fayette County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Brooks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brooks$592,691
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Brooks 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.
- Brooks20.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brooks27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brooks6
Zip codes with a Brooks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brooks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.