Hoboken, Georgia.
Typical home $208,988 (+5.9% in a year). Brunswick, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$352 (+47%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,670 +6%
- $197,318$208,988 since Sep 2025
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.
- Hoboken$1,097
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hoboken, GA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hoboken, Brantley County, Georgia
Hoboken is a city of 480 people in Brantley County. Unemployment in Brantley County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brantley County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hoboken is a very small city in Brantley County, in southeastern Georgia, where most people know their neighbors by name. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes in the county sit below the national picture. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Brantley County, the largest workplaces include Brantley County Schools, H and S Car Carriers and Bayview Nursing & Rehab. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Alabaha River and Laura S. Walker State Park are both a short drive away, offering water and woods for an easy afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, Okefenokee Swamp Park, a museum devoted to the swamp, lies a longer drive away. The wider Okefenokee country is a large wild area that draws visitors from across the region.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Brantley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brantley County had 2,707 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waycross Northeast weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brantley County
- Brantley County SchoolsSchool district541FTE
- H and S Car CarriersTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance170
- Bayview Nursing & RehabSkilled nursing facilities107
- Varn Wood ProductsCustom sawmills95
- Brantley Telephone CompanyOn-line access service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure59
- Okefenoke RemcDistribution of electric power58
- Cajenn Construction and Rehabilitation ServicesSewer construction51
- Cal-Maine FoodsChicken egg production49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 633 people in all across the county; Hoboken 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hoboken’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 Brantley County and the Brunswick, GA metro.
Hoboken home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hoboken$208,988
- 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 Hoboken address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hoboken — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.