Calhoun, Georgia.
Typical home $273,982 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $1,605 (+5.0%). Calhoun, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$863 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,016 +3%
- $266,966$273,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,653 +36%
- $201,329$273,982 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.
- Calhoun$1,438
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Calhoun, GA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Calhoun, GA rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Calhoun runs $284/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $343 in May 2024.
That is $1,889 a month against $1,605 rent: a $1,438 mortgage payment, plus $157 property tax and $293 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Calhoun
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$1,889
- Renting$1,605
- Mortgage only$1,438
Property tax · $157/mo 0.69% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Gordon County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $293/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 Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia
Calhoun is a city of 16,949 people in Gordon County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Gordon County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calhoun is a small city in northwest Georgia and the seat of Gordon County. Its residents are younger than in many American towns, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renters make up a good share of households. Winters are cool and fairly short, summers are hot, and rain and the occasional snow come through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, with schools, hospitals and social care, shops and the building trades close behind. Carpet and textile makers such as Mohawk Industries and Shaw Industries Group are among the largest workplaces in town, along with AdventHealth Gordon, the local hospital. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. New Echota, a protected historic area, is a short drive away, and Lake Marvin, a reservoir, is also close by. Oothkalooga Creek runs in or beside town, and Etowah Indian Mounds, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 6,633households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gordon County had 25,007 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rome R B Russell Airport weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun
- Adventhealth GordonGeneral hospital919FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesSales871
- Mannington MillsCarpets and rugs made from textile materials695
- Calhoun City SchoolsSchool district457FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupThread, all fibers, manufacturing446
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials440
- Apache MillsFloor mats, rubber, manufacturing400
- Apache Mills A1Doormats, rubber, manufacturing400
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,452 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of CalhounRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calhoun’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 Gordon County and the Calhoun, GA metro.
Calhoun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calhoun$273,982
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Calhoun listings, and the typical home goes pending in 35 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Calhoun31.44%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Calhoun35
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Calhoun186
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Calhoun46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Calhoun$259,324
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Calhoun98.14%
Zip codes with a Calhoun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calhoun — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.