Denton, Georgia.
Typical home $162,797 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$423 (+98%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,142 +3%
- $157,656$162,797 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,349 +16%
- $140,448$162,797 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.
- Denton$854
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Denton, GA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denton, Jeff Davis County, Georgia
Denton is a city of 189 people in Jeff Davis County. Unemployment in Jeff Davis County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jeff Davis County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denton is a very small city in Jeff Davis County, in south Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across the county run on the low side. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Jeff Davis County, the largest workplaces include Jeff Davis County Schools, Beasley Forest Products and Beasley Timber Company. The typical commute is a long one, so many people spend a good part of the day on the road.
Things to do. The closest of the nearby outdoor spots is Broxton Rocks, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive leads to General Coffee State Park, another protected area, and to the Satilla River, one of the better known waterways in the area. Both suit a day spent outdoors.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
What people in Jeff Davis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jeff Davis County had 4,348 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazlehurst weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jeff Davis County
- Jeff Davis County SchoolsSchool district475FTE
- Beasley Forest ProductsSawmills366
- Beasley Timber CompanyLogging235
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
- Thompson HardwoodSawmills185
- Jeff DavisCritical access hospital157FTE
- UFP PackagingPallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing77
- HZ SNFSkilled nursing facilities59
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,273 people in all across the county; Denton 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denton’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 Jeff Davis County.
Denton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denton$162,797
- 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 Denton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.