Cochran, Georgia.
Typical home $161,558 (+7.9% in a year). Macon-Bibb County, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$499 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,774 +8%
- $149,784$161,558 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,930 +36%
- $118,628$161,558 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.
- Cochran$848
- 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 Cochran, GA rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia
Cochran is a city of 5,026 people in Bleckley County. Half its households earn more than $33,456 a year and half less, against $62,008 across Bleckley County; 32% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Bleckley County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cochran is a small city with a young population, and its residents are younger than in most American towns. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a good many households live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government and professional and business services also common. Among the largest workplaces in Cochran are Gilmer Warehouse, Walmart and Bleckley Memorial Hospital. The county's unemployment rate has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Big Indian Creek, a river, is a short drive away, as is the Hawkinsville Opera House, a theatre. Farther out, a longer drive leads to Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. The Museum of Aviation is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,480households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 32%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bleckley County had 3,278 jobs in 2025, 4.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawkinsville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cochran
- Gilmer WarehouseGeneral warehousing and storage179
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters161
- Bleckley Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital99FTE
- Cochran SNF OperatorSkilled nursing facilities53
- CochranMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 413 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cochran’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 Bleckley County and the Macon-Bibb County, GA metro.
Cochran home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cochran$161,558
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Cochran listings — 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.
- Cochran19.11%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cochran40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cochran11
Zip codes with a Cochran address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cochran — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.