Cordele, Georgia.
Typical home $140,049 (+4.0% in a year), asking rent $925 . Cordele, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$386 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,398 +4%
- $134,651$140,049 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,647 +20%
- $116,402$140,049 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.
- Cordele$735
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Cordele, GA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia
Cordele is a city of 10,220 people in Crisp County. Half its households earn more than $33,800 a year and half less, against $45,105 across Crisp County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Crisp County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cordele is a small city in Crisp County, Georgia, with a younger population than many towns of its kind. Incomes here sit well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Most households rent rather than own, and a four-year degree is held by relatively few adults. Homes are modestly priced, and rents are in line with that.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport and warehousing, and in manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Cordele include Crisp County Schools, Crisp Regional Hospital and Walmart. Jobs across the county have slipped from the year before, though unemployment remains low. The typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Georgia Veterans State Park, a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Blackshear is a reservoir for time on the water, and Andersonville National Historic Site is a protected area with a long history. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
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- 4,194households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crisp County had 8,409 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cordele weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cordele
- Crisp County SchoolsSchool district601FTE
- Crisp Regional HospitalGeneral hospital539FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- Harris Equipment CordeleBaling machinery manufacturing167
- Big Tex Trailer ManufacturingTruck trailer manufacturing130
- West Fraser CordeleOriented strandboard manufacturing125
- Crisp Regional Health SystemHospital and medical service plans, direct, without providing health care services82
- McLaneDistribution of a general line of groceries71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,890 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of CordeleRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cordele’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 Crisp County and the Cordele, GA metro.
Cordele home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cordele$140,049
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cordele 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.
- Cordele25.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cordele109
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cordele16
Zip codes with a Cordele address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cordele — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.