Ephesus, Georgia.
Typical home $250,594 (+2.2% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$797 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,328 +2%
- $245,266$250,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,024 +32%
- $189,570$250,594 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.
- Ephesus$1,315
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Ephesus, GA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ephesus, Heard County, Georgia
Ephesus is a city of 471 people in Heard County. Unemployment in Heard County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Heard 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ephesus is a very small city in Heard County, Georgia, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Homes here are valued above what is typical for the county's household incomes, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country. Winters are cool and short, with snow a rare event, while summers run hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and local shops close behind. Across Heard County, some of the largest workplaces are Heard County Schools, JAC Products- Franklin, which assembles bumpers for vehicles, and Southern Power Company, a power generator. Almost no one works from home, and unemployment in the county has stayed low and eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Hillabahatchee Creek is a river a short drive away, a pleasant spot for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to John Tanner State Park, a protected area for outdoor days, and to the Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum, a museum for anyone who enjoys handwork and fabric arts.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Heard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Heard County had 2,174 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carrollton weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Heard County
- Heard County SchoolsSchool district296FTE
- JAC Products- FranklinBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing249
- Southern Power CompanyPower generation, fossil fuel, electric39
- Rivers Edge Water Jet TechnologiesCustom architectural millwork and fixtures, manufacturing on a job shop basis30
- Municipal Electric Authority of GeorgiaElectric power generation, fossil fuel22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 340 people in all across the county; Ephesus has none 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ephesus’ 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 Heard County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Ephesus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ephesus$250,594
- 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 Ephesus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ephesus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.