Cohutta, Georgia.
Typical home $268,341 (+3.9% in a year). Dalton, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$820 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,031 +4%
- $258,310$268,341 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,479 +38%
- $194,861$268,341 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.
- Cohutta$1,408
- 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 Cohutta, GA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cohutta, Whitfield County, Georgia
Cohutta is a city of 764 people in Whitfield County. Half its households earn more than $75,781 a year and half less, against $67,070 across Whitfield County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Whitfield County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Whitfield County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cohutta is a very small town in Whitfield County, Georgia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by August.
Work. People who live in Cohutta work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Whitfield County, some of the largest workplaces are Hamilton Medical Center, Shaw Industries Group and Whitfield County Schools. Many residents drive a fair distance to work, and a number work from home. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment there is slightly lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Red Clay State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Tiger Creek and Dry Creek are rivers a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Chattanooga, where the Tennessee Aquarium, Ruby Falls, a waterfall, and the Hunter Museum of American Art are among the better-known stops.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Whitfield County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whitfield County had 55,935 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalton weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whitfield County
- Hamilton Medical CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals2,138
- Hanwha Q Cells USAPhotovoltaic devices, solid-state, manufacturing1,652
- Whitfield County SchoolsSchool district1,605FTE
- Engineered FloorsThread, all fibers, manufacturing1,314
- Shaw Industries GroupHome furnishing merchant wholesalers1,083
- Dalton Public SchoolsSchool district1,045FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesCarpet921
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials738
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 160 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,683 people in all across the county; Cohutta has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of CohuttaRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cohutta’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 Whitfield County and the Dalton, GA metro.
Cohutta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cohutta$268,341
- 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.
- Cohutta8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cohutta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cohutta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.