Cisco, Georgia.
Typical home $184,122 (+3.0% in a year). Dalton, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$272 (+39%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,383 +3%
- $178,739$184,122 since Sep 2025
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.
- Cisco$966
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cisco, GA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cisco, Murray County, Georgia
The Census does not count Cisco on its own, so the figures here are Murray County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,253 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Murray County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Murray County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cisco is a small community in Murray County, in the hills of northwest Georgia. Many of its neighbors have lived there for generations, and the countryside around it is quiet and wooded. Winters are cool, summers are hot, and the area gets a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Fewer people work from home here than in many parts of the country, and most homes across Murray County are lived in by their owners. Home values and incomes are lower than in many parts of the state, and the county's job numbers have eased slightly in recent years.
Things to do. Tearbritches Creek is a river a short drive away, good for a slow afternoon by the water. Cohutta Wilderness is a protected area also a short drive away, with forest trails for walking. Fort Mountain State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, suited to a day trip.
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- 15,246households
- 39.4median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Murray County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Murray County had 8,160 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatsworth weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Murray County
- Murray County SchoolsSchool district794FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials414
- Mohawk IndustriesAdmin268
- Mohawk IndustriesYarn223
- Huali Group USResilient floor coverings manufacturing174
- Adventhealth MurrayGeneral hospital155FTE
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores150
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,232 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Murray County, 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 Murray County and the Dalton, GA metro.
Cisco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cisco$184,122
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Cisco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cisco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.