Kingston, Georgia.
Typical home $298,248 (+1.3% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$889 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,759 +1%
- $294,489$298,248 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,864 +27%
- $235,385$298,248 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.
- Kingston$1,565
- 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 Kingston, GA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Kingston, Bartow County, Georgia
Kingston is a city of 722 people in Bartow County. Unemployment in Bartow County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bartow 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingston is a very small city in Bartow County, Georgia, with few residents and a quiet, close-knit scale. Typical home values are well above what the town's size might suggest, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is usual. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Bartow County, some of the largest workplaces are Bartow County Schools, Toyo Tire North America and Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Kingston Saltpeter Cave is a protected area in or beside town, and Connesena Creek runs through or alongside it. A short drive away, the Tellus Science Museum and the Booth Western Art Museum offer indoor outings, and Taylors Lake is a reservoir close by for time near the water. A longer drive leads to the Etowah Indian Mounds, an archaeological site.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Bartow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bartow County had 47,654 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 65°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cartersville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bartow County
- Bartow County SchoolsSchool district1,956FTE
- Toyo Tire North AmericaTires manufacturing1,775
- Hanwha Qcells GeorgiaSolar cells manufacturing1,339
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials1,240
- Piedmont Cartersville Medical CenterGeneral hospital662FTE
- NOTS LogisticsGeneral warehousing and storage550
- Cartersville City SchoolsSchool district542FTE
- Shaw IndustriesCarpets and rugs made from textile materials446
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 142 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,599 people in all across the county; Kingston has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingston’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 Bartow County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Kingston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingston$298,248
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kingston listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Kingston29.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kingston42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kingston11
Zip codes with a Kingston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.