Byron, Georgia.
Typical home $267,088 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $1,513 (+2.0%). Warner Robins, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$783 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,470 +3%
- $259,618$267,088 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,367 +32%
- $201,721$267,088 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.
- Byron$1,402
- 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 Byron, GA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Byron, GA rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Byron runs $401/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $1,915 a month against $1,513 rent: a $1,402 mortgage payment, plus $227 property tax and $286 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Byron
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$1,915
- Renting$1,513
- Mortgage only$1,402
Property tax · $227/mo 1.02% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Peach County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $286/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 Byron, Peach County, Georgia
Byron is a city of 5,702 people in Peach County. Half its households earn more than $85,596 a year and half less, against $71,293 across Peach County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Peach County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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. Byron is a small city in Peach County, Georgia, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are mild and cool, while summers turn hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Among the larger workplaces in Byron are S & W Excavating and Grading, Frito-Lay and Southway Crane & Rigging. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Middle Georgia Raceway, a race track, sits in or beside town. A short drive away, Tobesofkee Creek offers a river setting for time outdoors. Farther afield by car, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is an archaeological site, and Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area.
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- 2,346households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Peach County had 10,790 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Macon Middle Ga Regional Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Byron
- S & W Excavating and GradingExcavation contractors67
- Frito-LayConfectionery merchant wholesalers65
- Southway Crane & Rigging - Macon BranchCrane rental with operator41
- CR Meyer - ByronIndustrial building construction, general contractors37
- Agricultural Research ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture27
- Synergy Equipment ByronConstruction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 234 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Byron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Peach County and the Warner Robins, GA metro.
Byron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Byron$267,088
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Byron listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Byron25.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Byron65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Byron18
Zip codes with a Byron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Byron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.