Fairview, Georgia.
Typical home $208,527 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,500 . Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$641 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,967 +1%
- $205,559$208,527 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,254 +29%
- $161,273$208,527 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.
- Fairview$1,095
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Fairview, GA rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairview, Walker County, Georgia
Fairview, in Walker County, had 6,409 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $64,050 a year and half less, against $59,469 across Walker County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Walker County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairview is a community in Walker County, Georgia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run a little above the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and summers hot, with very little snow and a lot of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also common. Across Walker County, some of the largest workplaces are Walker County Schools, Shaw Industries Group and Walmart. The typical commute is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, an archaeological site and historic battlefield, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Ruby Falls, a waterfall inside a cave, and the Tennessee Aquarium. Lake Winnepesaukah, an amusement park, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,312households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walker County had 14,867 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chickamauga Pk Larc weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walker County
- Supply Chain : Roper Corporation, LafayetteRanges, household-type cooking, manufacturing2,505
- Walker County SchoolsSchool district1,436FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupAll other misc textile product mills616
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- See Rock CityTourist guide services275
- Viking IndustrialMechanical contractors250
- Shaw Industries GroupThread, all fibers, manufacturing225
- Parkside Nursing and RehabNursing homes206
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,352 people in all across the county; Fairview 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairview’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 Walker County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Fairview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairview$208,527
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fairview listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Fairview36.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairview26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fairview9
Zip codes with a Fairview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairview — 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.