Hazlehurst, Georgia.
Typical home $144,281 (+5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$418 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,882 +6%
- $136,399$144,281 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,566 +27%
- $113,715$144,281 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.
- Hazlehurst$757
- 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 Hazlehurst, GA rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County, Georgia
Hazlehurst is a city of 4,088 people in Jeff Davis County. Unemployment in Jeff Davis County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jeff Davis County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hazlehurst is a small city and the seat of Jeff Davis County in south Georgia. Incomes in the county run below what is typical across the country, and homes here are priced modestly. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Hazlehurst are Jeff Davis County Schools, Walmart and the critical access hospital. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Little Ocmulgee River and Alligator Creek are both a short drive away, and are the closest places for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Little Ocmulgee State Park and General Coffee State Park, protected areas for walking and spending a day outdoors.
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- 1,307households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Jeff Davis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jeff Davis County had 4,348 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazlehurst weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hazlehurst
- Jeff Davis County SchoolsSchool district475FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
- Jeff DavisCritical access hospital157FTE
- HZ SNFSkilled nursing facilities59
- HazlehurstMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 303 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of HazlehurstRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hazlehurst’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 Jeff Davis County.
Hazlehurst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hazlehurst$144,281
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hazlehurst 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.
- Hazlehurst27.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hazlehurst35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hazlehurst8
Zip codes with a Hazlehurst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hazlehurst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.