Irwinton, Georgia.
Typical home $140,574 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$385 (+109%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $4,947 +4%
- $135,627$140,574 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,626 +23%
- $113,948$140,574 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.
- Irwinton$738
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Irwinton, GA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Georgia
Irwinton is a city of 531 people in Wilkinson County. Unemployment in Wilkinson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wilkinson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Irwinton is a very small city and the seat of Wilkinson County, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes across the county run below the national level. Few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Wilkinson County, the largest workplaces include Wilkinson County Schools, Eagle Railcar Services and Industrial Steel & Machinery. Nobody here works from home, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away, as is Lake Sinclair, a lake good for a day on the water. Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a longer drive. Winters are mild and summers hot, with little or no snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Wilkinson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wilkinson County had 2,876 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Irwinton Wnw weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilkinson County
- Wilkinson County SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- Eagle Railcar Services - Gordon, GeorgiaLocomotive and rail car repair88
- Industrial Steel & MachineryMillwrights38
- McIntyre GA - 48Forty PlantPallet wood plant28
- Woody's LumberCustom sawmills27
- GXO Warehouse CompanyGeneral warehousing and storage22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 203 people in all across the county; Irwinton has one 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Irwinton’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 Wilkinson County.
Irwinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Irwinton$140,574
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Irwinton6
Zip codes with a Irwinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Irwinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Irwinton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31042 | Irwinton | 1,600 | — | $142,755 |
| 31017 | Danville | 1,382 | — | $152,015 |