Clermont, Georgia.
Typical home $397,928 (-0.8% in a year). Gainesville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,236 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,126 -1%
- $401,054$397,928 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,058 +31%
- $304,870$397,928 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.
- Clermont$2,089
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Clermont, GA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clermont, Hall County, Georgia
Clermont is a town of 1,021 people in Hall County. Half its households earn more than $135,500 a year and half less, against $80,901 across Hall County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Hall County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clermont is a small town in Hall County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. The population is on the older side, and about as many adults hold a four-year degree as not. Winters are cold but short, with highs near the middle of the range for the Southeast and only a dusting of snow in a typical year. Summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, manufacturing and shops. The commute is a bit longer than a quick hop across town, and some people work from home. Across Hall County, the largest workplaces include Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Kubota Manufacturing of America and Fieldale Farms. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Don Carter State Park, a protected area on Lake Lanier, is a short drive away and suits a day outdoors. Farther afield, Lake Lanier is a large reservoir and Amicalola Falls is one of the better-known waterfalls in the north Georgia hills, both a longer drive away. Anna Ruby Falls, another waterfall, is also a longer drive.
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- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hall County had 103,296 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 1 inches of snow and 65 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hall County
- Northeast Georgia Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,769FTE
- Kubota Manufacturing of AmericaTractors and attachments, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing2,962
- Pilgrims Corporation Poultry Processing 1073 / Sanitation 3655 / Admin 1077 GainesvillePoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,907
- Fieldale FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,731
- SoulshinefarmsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,394
- Northeast Georgia Center BraseltonGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,362
- Mar-Jac PoultryPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,354
- Mars Wrigley Confectionery USConfectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing1,246
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 213 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,851 people in all across the county; Clermont has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clermont’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 Hall County and the Gainesville, GA metro.
Clermont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clermont$397,928
- 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 3 Clermont 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.
- Clermont34.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clermont30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clermont7
Zip codes with a Clermont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clermont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.