Guyton, Georgia.
Typical home $353,252 (-1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,320 . Savannah, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,043 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,430 -2%
- $359,682$353,252 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,122 +33%
- $266,130$353,252 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.
- Guyton$1,854
- 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 Guyton, GA fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Guyton, Effingham County, Georgia
Guyton is a city of 2,289 people in Effingham County. Half its households earn more than $86,250 a year and half less, against $88,438 across Effingham County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Effingham County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Guyton is a small city in Effingham County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are younger than in much of the country, and household incomes sit a little below the county's. Typical home values and rents run high, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Effingham County, the largest workplaces include Effingham County Schools, Georgia Transformer and Effingham Hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added jobs. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Forsyth Park is a city park a longer drive away, and the Telfair Museums are a museum of art and history reached by the same longer drive. Nature lovers can head to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area that is also a longer drive from town. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 841households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Effingham County had 14,590 jobs in 2025, 4.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brooklet West weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Effingham County
- Effingham County SchoolsSchool district2,033FTE
- Georgia TransformerTransformer manufacturer1,031
- Savannah River Tissue982
- Edwards InteriorsAerospace manufacture380
- Effingham HospitalCritical access hospital330FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Sewon America Inc. Sare LocationAutomobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing310
- Kroger Atlanta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores234
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,910 people in all across the county; Guyton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Guyton’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 Effingham County and the Savannah, GA metro.
Guyton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Guyton$353,252
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
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 3 Guyton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 57 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Guyton29.32%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Guyton159
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Guyton36
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Guyton$340,334
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Guyton99.46%
Zip codes with a Guyton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Guyton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.