Brunswick, Georgia.
Typical home $255,387 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,568 (+1.0%). Brunswick, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$734 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $972 +0%
- $254,415$255,387 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,355 +28%
- $200,032$255,387 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.
- Brunswick$1,340
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Brunswick, GA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brunswick, GA rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brunswick runs $167/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $292 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,735 a month against $1,568 rent: a $1,340 mortgage payment, plus $121 property tax and $273 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brunswick
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,735
- Renting$1,568
- Mortgage only$1,340
Property tax · $121/mo 0.57% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Glynn County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $273/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia
Brunswick is a city of 15,210 people in Glynn County. Half its households earn more than $40,288 a year and half less, against $69,799 across Glynn County; 31% of its people live below the poverty line. 43% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 57% are rented. Unemployment in Glynn County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Brunswick is a small coastal city in Glynn County, Georgia, with a population near the middle of the range for cities its type. Residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the country. Incomes run well below the county's, a higher share of people live below the poverty line than is typical, and more households rent than own their homes. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Brunswick are Glynn County Schools, the Brunswick campus of the area hospital, and King and Prince Seafood. Commutes are short, and few people work from home. Unemployment in Glynn County is low, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Water is close by in every direction. The Brunswick River runs in or beside town, and Saint Simons Island, with its beach, is a short drive away. Jekyll Island, a protected area with its own museum, is also a short drive, and Fort Frederica National Monument is another short drive for anyone who likes history.
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- 6,292households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Glynn County had 43,238 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 75°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brunswick weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brunswick
- Glynn County SchoolsSchool district2,055FTE
- Sghs - Brunswick CampusGeneral hospital1,348FTE
- King and Prince Seafood BrunswickSeafood and seafood products manufacturing308
- Coastal Home CareHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical270
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores119
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services113
- JeredShip sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing110
- Sears Coastal Nursing and RebabAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,217 people in all. 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BrunswickRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of BrunswickRelatively 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 Brunswick’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 Glynn County and the Brunswick, GA metro.
Brunswick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brunswick$255,387
- 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 4 Brunswick listings, and the typical home goes pending in 50 days — 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.
- Brunswick23.07%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brunswick50
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brunswick326
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brunswick70
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brunswick$301,845
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Brunswick97.60%
Zip codes with a Brunswick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brunswick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Brunswick
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31525 | Brunswick | 28,926 | $1,577 | $277,904 |
| 31520 | Brunswick | 22,313 | $1,524 | $151,128 |
| 31523 | Brunswick | 15,402 | — | $329,534 |
| 31527 | Jekyll Island | 769 | — | $780,401 |