Franklin, Georgia.
Typical home $250,797 (-2.7% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$724 (+122%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,847 -3%
- $257,644$250,797 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,985 +26%
- $199,812$250,797 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.
- Franklin$1,316
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Franklin, GA fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Franklin, Heard County, Georgia
Franklin is a city of 950 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Franklin is a very small city and the seat of Heard County, in west Georgia. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with lows that dip below freezing now and then and snow that is rare. Summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops close behind. Across Heard County, the largest workplaces include Heard County Schools, JAC Products- Franklin, which assembles bumpers, and Southern Power Company, a power generator. Unemployment in the county is low and has changed little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Heard County Jail, now a museum, stands in or beside town. A short drive away, the New River offers a place to be near the water. Farther out, John Tanner State Park is a protected area for a longer day trip, and Hills and Dales Estate is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 3%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 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newnan Wnw weather station, 14 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; Franklin has two 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
- 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 Franklin’s 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.
Franklin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Franklin$250,797
- 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 Franklin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Franklin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.