Fortson, Georgia.
. Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$947 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Living in Fortson, Harris County, Georgia
The Census does not count Fortson on its own, so the figures here are Harris County's. Half the county's households earn more than $97,302 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 89% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Harris County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harris County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fortson is a town in Harris County, Georgia, where most homes are lived in by their owners, more than across most of the country. Residents have higher household incomes than the typical American household, and the county's population is older than the country as a whole. Winters are cold enough for frost on some nights, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall through much of the year, making it wetter than most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Harris County, unemployment has eased in recent months, and the county has recently added jobs. Fewer people work from home here than across the country, so most workers travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. The Little White House, a museum a longer drive away, is one of the best known sites in the area. Springer Opera House, a theatre also a longer drive off, and Goat Rock Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, offer a choice of evening entertainment and time outdoors.
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- 13,027households
- 43.5median age
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Harris County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 6,950 jobs in 2025, 6.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mulberry Grove weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harris County
- Koch Foods of Pine Mountain ValleyPoultry processing955
- Harris County SchoolsSchool district835FTE
- Hyundai Transys Gerogia PowertrainAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing625
- Glovis GeorgiaGeneral warehousing and storage423
- Daehan Solution GeorgiaMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing315
- AdientSeats for public conveyances, manufacturing254
- Koch FoodsBuilding cleaning services, interior76
- Impact 360 InstituteColleges, universities, and professional schools74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,900 people in all. 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Harris County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Harris County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Fortson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Fortson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Fortson18.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fortson36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fortson13
Zip codes with a Fortson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fortson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.