Colbert, Georgia.
Typical home $329,989 (+2.0% in a year). Athens-Clarke County, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,041 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,433 +2%
- $323,556$329,989 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,298 +33%
- $248,691$329,989 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.
- Colbert$1,732
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Colbert, GA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colbert, Madison County, Georgia
Colbert is a city of 630 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $75,469 a year and half less, against $61,963 across Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colbert is a very small Georgia city in Madison County, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another. Household incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole, and the typical home is valued at a good deal more than the typical incomes might suggest. Winters are cool and bring very little snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Madison County, the largest workplaces include Madison County Schools, SPG Construction and Ingles Markets. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Watson Mill Bridge State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest outdoor option on the list. A longer drive brings you to The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the Georgia Museum of Art and the Morton Theatre. Sanford Stadium and the Oconee River are also a longer drive away.
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What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 4,233 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winterville weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Madison County SchoolsSchool district759FTE
- SPG ConstructionMechanical contractors158
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores152
- Comer Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities94
- Engineering & Cycle CoMachine shops40
- Masterpiece Arms Holding CompanyMachine shops40
- ABM IndustriesService to buildings and dwellings36
- NAES GRP MadisonElectric power generation, fossil fuel34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 595 people in all across the county; Colbert has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colbert’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Madison County and the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro.
Colbert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colbert$329,989
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Colbert 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.
- Colbert27.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Colbert32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Colbert9
Zip codes with a Colbert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colbert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.