Hamilton, Georgia.
Typical home $382,554 (+6.6% in a year). Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,143 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,599 +7%
- $358,955$382,554 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,032 +31%
- $291,523$382,554 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.
- Hamilton$2,008
- 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 Hamilton, GA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamilton, Harris County, Georgia
Hamilton is a city of 1,680 people in Harris County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamilton is a small city and the seat of Harris County in west Georgia. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is worth more than in much of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole, and the town is a quiet one where people tend to know one another.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and government. Across Harris County, the largest workplaces include Koch Foods of Pine Mountain Valley, Harris County Schools and Hyundai Transys Georgia Powertrain. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Callaway Gardens, a botanical garden, and F. D. Roosevelt State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away and suit a day outdoors. The Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, also a botanical garden, is a short drive too. Winters are mild and summers hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 632households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents 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, 16 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 across the county; Hamilton 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamilton’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 Harris County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Hamilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamilton$382,554
- 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 4 Hamilton 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.
- Hamilton24.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hamilton29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hamilton7
Zip codes with a Hamilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.