Collins, Georgia.
Typical home $162,102 (+7.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$341 (+67%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $10,941 +7%
- $151,160$162,102 since Sep 2025
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.
- Collins$851
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Collins, GA rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Collins, Tattnall County, Georgia
Collins is a city of 540 people in Tattnall County. Unemployment in Tattnall County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tattnall County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Collins is a very small city in Tattnall County, in southeast Georgia, where most people know one another by sight. Incomes in the county run below the national picture, and homes here are priced modestly. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest days in January still staying above freezing, while summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. People who live in Collins work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also employing many. Across Tattnall County, some of the largest workplaces are Tattnall County Schools, Bland Farms and Tattnall Hospital Company. The commute is a fairly ordinary one, and very few people work from home. The county has lost a small number of jobs over the past year, though unemployment remains low.
Things to do. Jack Hill State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a place for walking and time outdoors. Farther off, the Ohoopee River is a river worth the longer drive for anyone who likes to be on or near the water. George L. Smith State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive.
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- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Tattnall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tattnall County had 5,685 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Metter weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tattnall County
- Tattnall County SchoolsSchool district574FTE
- Bland FarmsOnion farming, field, bedding plant and seed production299
- Tattnall Hospital CompanyCritical access hospital267FTE
- RotaryLawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers258
- Mascot Pecan ShellingCandy stores, nonchocolate, candy made on premises, not for immediate consumption207
- Rotary / DuramaticGrass mowing equipment, nonpowered lawn and garden, manufacturing145
- Canoochee EMCDistribution of electric power102
- Daybreak IndustrialInsulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,843 people in all across the county; Collins has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Collins’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Tattnall County.
Collins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Collins$162,102
- 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.
Zip codes with a Collins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Collins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.