Buchanan, Georgia.
Typical home $275,718 (+2.3% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$883 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,190 +2%
- $269,528$275,718 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,070 +35%
- $204,648$275,718 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.
- Buchanan$1,447
- 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 Buchanan, GA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buchanan, Haralson County, Georgia
Buchanan is a city of 938 people in Haralson County. Unemployment in Haralson County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Haralson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buchanan is a very small city in Haralson County, Georgia, with a population that fits in a handful of streets and churches. Residents are of middle age on the whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued well above what that might suggest, and household incomes across the county sit a good deal lower than the home values would lead you to expect. Winters are mild and short, with the cold of January never far below freezing at night and snow a rare event, while summers run hot and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and the building trades close behind, and a smaller number in professional and business services. Across Haralson County, the largest workplaces include Honda Transmission Mfg - Georgia Campus, West Georgia Technical College and Haralson County Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and a touch lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A few people work from home.
Things to do. Hightower Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away, which makes it the easiest outing from town. A longer drive brings you to John Tanner State Park, a protected area with a lake, and to the Little Tallapoosa River, one of the area's best known waterways. The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum is also a longer drive away, for a quieter day indoors.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Haralson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Haralson County had 8,149 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carrollton weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Haralson County
- Minebea AccessSolutions USAAutomotive mirrors, framed, manufacturing670
- West Georgia Technical CollegeTwo-year college625
- Honda Transmission Mfg - Georgia CampusAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing547
- Haralson County SchoolsSchool district503FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters331
- Bremen City SchoolsSchool district279FTE
- Whirlwind Steel Buildings TallapoosaPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing250
- DYMA Brands (Formally Diamond Crystal Brands) BremenHoney processing213
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,518 people in all across the county; Buchanan has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of BuchananRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buchanan’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 Haralson County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Buchanan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buchanan$275,718
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Buchanan 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.
- Buchanan38.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buchanan22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buchanan6
Zip codes with a Buchanan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buchanan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.