Ila, Georgia.
Typical home $251,403 (+1.6% in a year). Athens-Clarke County, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+66%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $4,059 +2%
- $247,344$251,403 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.
- Ila$1,320
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ila, GA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ila, Madison County, Georgia
Ila is a city of 350 people in Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ila is a very small city in Madison County, Georgia, with a young population for a place its size and few adults holding a four-year degree. Typical home values here sit well above what the county's household incomes might suggest. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Madison County Schools, SPG Construction and Ingles Markets. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year ago, and the county has added jobs since the year before. The typical commute is fairly long, so many people travel some way to their work.
Things to do. The Hudson River is a short drive away and the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the Oconee River and Sanford Stadium. Those wanting a museum or a day among gardens and water will find them within reach, though none is right on the doorstep.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 4,233 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danielsville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Madison County SchoolsSchool district759FTE
- SPG ConstructionMechanical contractors158
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores152
- Comer Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities94
- Engineering & Cycle CoMachine shops40
- Masterpiece Arms Holding CompanyMachine shops40
- ABM IndustriesService to buildings and dwellings36
- NAES GRP MadisonElectric power generation, fossil fuel34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 595 people in all across the county; Ila has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ila’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 Madison County and the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro.
Ila home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ila$251,403
- 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 Ila address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ila — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.