Fargo, Georgia.
Typical home $92,877 (-5.1% in a year). Valdosta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$99 (+26%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $4,982 -5%
- $97,859$92,877 since Sep 2025
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.
- Fargo$487
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fargo, GA fell 5.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fargo, Echols County, Georgia
Fargo is a city of 250 people in Echols County. Unemployment in Echols County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Echols County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fargo is a very small city in Echols County, Georgia, and few places in the state are quieter. Homes here cost less than in most of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical trip to work takes a fair stretch of the morning, with only a small number of people working from home. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Echols County, the largest workplaces include Echols County Schools, KMA Employee Leasing, which supplies crews for farm work, and the county's Winn-Dixie supermarket. Unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, though there were fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Suwannoochee Creek runs in or beside town, and Alligator Creek is a short drive away, both good for a quiet hour by the water. A longer drive brings you to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, a large protected swampland, and to Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, a protected area named for the songwriter. Both make a fuller day out.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Echols County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Echols County had 603 jobs in 2025, 5.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fargo Northeast weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Echols County
- Echols County SchoolsSchool district122FTE
- KMA Employee LeasingAgriculture production or harvesting crews90
- 32 Winn-dixie StoresSupermarket63
- Coggins Farm Supply GeorgiaAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 173 people in all across the county; Fargo 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fargo’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 Echols County and the Valdosta, GA metro.
Fargo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fargo$92,877
- 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 Fargo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fargo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.