Covington, Georgia.
Typical home $292,894 (-0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,839 (+1.8%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$855 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,429 -1%
- $295,323$292,894 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,439 +19%
- $245,455$292,894 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.
- Covington$1,537
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Covington, GA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Covington, GA rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Covington runs $228/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $466 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,067 a month against $1,839 rent: a $1,537 mortgage payment, plus $216 property tax and $314 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Covington
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,067
- Renting$1,839
- Mortgage only$1,537
Property tax · $216/mo 0.89% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Newton County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $314/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Covington, Newton County, Georgia
Covington is a city of 14,192 people in Newton County. Half its households earn more than $58,810 a year and half less, against $77,179 across Newton County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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. Covington is a city in Newton County, Georgia, and its people tend to be a little younger than in many towns. Household incomes run well below the county's, and more households than across the county live below the poverty line. Most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners, so renting is common. Winters are mild and brief, with cool days and nights that dip close to freezing in January, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Snow is rare, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and other services. Among the largest workplaces in Covington are Newton County Schools, BD Covington and Piedmont Newton Hospital. Unemployment in Newton County has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. Commutes are long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Several places for time outdoors lie a short drive away. Lake Bulow Campbell is a reservoir, Big Haynes Creek is a river, and Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center is a museum. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Ocmulgee River and to Hard Labor Creek State Park, a protected area.
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- 5,662households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 27,786 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Covington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Covington
- Newton County SchoolsSchool district2,607FTE
- BD CovingtonCatheters manufacturing808
- Piedmont Newton HospitalGeneral hospital700FTE
- General Mills Covington SiteBreakfast cereals manufacturing505
- PactivPolystyrene foam product manufacturing447
- Indorama Ventures Hygiene CovingtonNoncellulosic fibers and filaments manufacturing239
- Becton DickinsonGeneral warehousing and storage236
- Verescence North AmericaGlass packaging containers manufacturing219
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,154 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
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of CovingtonRelatively moderate
- Hailrelatively high in parts of CovingtonRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of CovingtonRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of CovingtonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of CovingtonRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Covington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Newton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Covington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Covington$292,894
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Covington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 47 days — 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.
- Covington29.72%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Covington47
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Covington576
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Covington130
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Covington$276,569
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Covington98.13%
Zip codes with a Covington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Covington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Covington
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30016 | Covington | 62,968 | $1,905 | $285,565 |
| 30014 | Covington | 41,425 | $1,791 | $306,592 |