Homerville, Georgia.
Typical home $132,834 (+12.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$374 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,519 +12%
- $118,315$132,834 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,451 +20%
- $110,383$132,834 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.
- Homerville$697
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Homerville, GA rose 12.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Homerville, Clinch County, Georgia
Homerville is a city of 2,344 people in Clinch County. Half its households earn more than $35,671 a year and half less. Unemployment in Clinch County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Homerville is the small county seat of Clinch County in south Georgia, a place where people tend to be younger than in much of the state and incomes run modest. Homes here cost well below what is typical for the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Manufacturing is the backbone of local employment, with BWAY Homerville, which makes steel cans and light gauge metal products, and Lee Container, which makes bottles and plastics, among the largest workplaces. CL SNF, a skilled nursing facility, is another major employer. Jobs across Clinch County have slipped slightly from the year before, and the commute is a moderate one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The Okefenokee country is the main draw nearby, and every place on this list is a longer drive away. Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Stephen C. Foster State Park are protected areas for wildlife and time outdoors, and Okefenokee Swamp Park is a museum that explains the swamp. The Black River, a river, offers another way to get out on the water.
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- 799households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Homerville North weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Homerville
- BWAY HomervilleSteel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing430
- Lee Container - HomervilleBottles, plastics, manufacturing290
- CL SNFSkilled nursing facilities70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 790 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Homerville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Clinch County.
Homerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Homerville$132,834
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Homerville 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.
- Homerville15.64%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Homerville18
Zip codes with a Homerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Homerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.