Dudley, Georgia.
Typical home $213,084 (+5.3% in a year). Dublin, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$577 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,789 +5%
- $202,295$213,084 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,614 +20%
- $177,469$213,084 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.
- Dudley$1,118
- 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 Dudley, GA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dudley, Laurens County, Georgia
Dudley is a city of 593 people in Laurens County. Unemployment in Laurens County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dudley is a very small city in Laurens County, Georgia, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another. Homes here are worth less than in much of the country, and a smaller share of households live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Laurens County, the largest workplaces include the Veterans Health Administration, Laurens County Schools and YKK AP America. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there has eased slightly compared with a year earlier. The commute to work is moderate, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Whitley Branch, a river, is a short drive away and suits a quiet afternoon outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Big Indian Creek, another river, and to the Hawkinsville Opera House, a theatre. The Museum of Aviation is also a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rainfall is plentiful through the year.
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- 32%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Laurens County had 20,291 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dublin weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Laurens County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,597
- Laurens County SchoolsSchool district889FTE
- YKK AP AmericaFrames, door and window, metal, manufacturing528
- Fairview Park HospitalGeneral hospital527FTE
- Dublin City SchoolsSchool district378FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- WestRock SoutheastPapermill294
- Parker HannifinOther guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing205
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,453 people in all across the county; Dudley has two of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dudley’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 Laurens County and the Dublin, GA metro.
Dudley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dudley$213,084
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dudley5
Zip codes with a Dudley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dudley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Dudley
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31022 | Dudley | 1,817 | — | $222,452 |
| 31065 | Montrose | 1,481 | — | $166,406 |