Edison, Georgia.
Typical home $95,070 (-1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$172 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $982 -1%
- $96,053$95,070 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $11,271 -11%
- $106,342$95,070 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.
- Edison$499
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Edison, GA fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edison, Calhoun County, Georgia
Edison is a city of 1,230 people in Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edison is a small city in Calhoun County, Georgia, in the southwest part of the state. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across the county run on the low side. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and only a small number of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and forestry, and shops also giving people a living. Across Calhoun County, the biggest workplaces are Calhoun County Schools and State Specialty Schools II- Pataula Charter Academy. Unemployment across the county is low and a touch lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Kolomoki Mounds State Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away and is the best known place nearby. George T. Bagby State Park, a protected area on the shore of Walter F. George Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year, so time outdoors suits most seasons.
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- 482households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 1,271 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cuthbert weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Calhoun County SchoolsSchool district88FTE
- State Specialty Schools II- Pataula Charter AcademySchool district87FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edison’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 Calhoun County.
Edison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edison$95,070
- 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 Edison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.