Cobb, Georgia.
Typical home $346,619 (+8.2% in a year). Americus, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,144 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,343 +8%
- $320,276$346,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,158 +46%
- $237,461$346,619 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.
- Cobb$1,819
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Cobb, GA rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cobb, Sumter County, Georgia
The Census does not count Cobb on its own, so the figures here are Sumter County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,653 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 57% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Sumter County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sumter County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cobb is a small community in Sumter County, in southwest Georgia. Across Sumter County, most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and typical home values are high compared with local incomes. Incomes are modest, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than in most of the country. Winters are mild by northern standards, with little or no snow, while summers are hot and the area gets a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, and a good number work in shops and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The number of jobs in the county dipped slightly last year, though unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home compared with the rest of the country, so most people head out each day.
Things to do. Georgia Veterans State Park, a museum a short drive away, is a good choice for an easy outing. Andersonville National Historic Site, a protected area a longer drive off, is another place to visit, and Lake Blackshear, a reservoir a short drive away, suits a quiet afternoon by the water.
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- 10,986households
- 37.9median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Sumter County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sumter County had 9,680 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crisp County Pwr Dam weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sumter County
- Sumter County SchoolsSchool district592FTE
- Phoebe Sumter Medical CenterGeneral hospital402FTE
- Georgia Southwestern State UniversityUniversity or college378
- Magnolia ManorSkilled nursing facilities332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- South Georgia Technical CollegeTwo-year college214
- TSGGaskets manufacturing148
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,732 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- 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 Sumter 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 Sumter County and the Americus, GA metro.
Cobb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cobb$346,619
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cobb12
Zip codes with a Cobb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cobb — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.