Ellaville, Georgia.
Typical home $173,347 (+2.2% in a year). Americus, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$500 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,772 +2%
- $169,575$173,347 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,502 +22%
- $141,845$173,347 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.
- Ellaville$910
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Ellaville, GA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia
Ellaville is a city of 1,595 people in Schley County. Unemployment in Schley County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 6.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Schley County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ellaville is a small Georgia city and the seat of Schley County, a quiet place where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still short of freezing for much of the time and snow rare, while summers turn hot by July. Rain falls throughout the year, and the total is on the generous side.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Schley County, some of the largest workplaces are TCI Powder Coatings, Sunbelt Modular and Schley County Schools. Incomes are modest, and the commute for a typical worker is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Angelica Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Andersonville National Historic Site, a protected area, and to Massee Lane Gardens, a botanical garden. The Georgia Rural Telephone Museum, also a longer drive away, is a good stop for anyone curious about local history.
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- 605households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Schley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schley County had 1,224 jobs in 2025, 6.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plains Southwest Ga Experiment Station weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schley County
- TCI Powder CoatingsPowder coatings manufacturing281
- Sunbelt ModularManufactured buildings for commercial use manufacturing185
- Schley County SchoolsSchool district172FTE
- T&R CustomBuildings, mobile, commercial use, manufacturing44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 510 people in all across the county; Ellaville has one of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ellaville’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 Schley County and the Americus, GA metro.
Ellaville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ellaville$173,347
- 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.
- Ellaville11
Zip codes with a Ellaville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ellaville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.