Leesburg, Georgia.
Typical home $264,146 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $1,481 (+3.7%). Albany, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$779 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,672 +2%
- $259,474$264,146 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,256 +31%
- $201,890$264,146 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.
- Leesburg$1,386
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Leesburg, GA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Leesburg, GA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Leesburg runs $402/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $499 in Jan 2025.
That is $1,883 a month against $1,481 rent: a $1,386 mortgage payment, plus $214 property tax and $283 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Leesburg
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,883
- Renting$1,481
- Mortgage only$1,386
Property tax · $214/mo 0.97% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Lee County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $283/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Leesburg, Lee County, Georgia
Leesburg is a city of 3,480 people in Lee County. Half its households earn more than $79,460 a year and half less, against $89,168 across Lee County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lee County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Leesburg is a small city in Lee County, Georgia, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, while July brings hot summers.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Leesburg are Lee County Schools and Lee County Health and Rehabilitation. The commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Kinchafoonee Creek, a river, and Lake Chehaw, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, as is Chehaw Park, which has a zoo. For a longer outing, the Flint RiverQuarium, an aquarium, and Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, a protected area, are each a longer drive away.
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- 1,442households
- 17%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 7,583 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leesburg weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leesburg
- Lee County SchoolsSchool district836FTE
- Lee County Health and Rehabilitation158
- LeesburgMail and parcel delivery48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 206 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leesburg’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 Lee County and the Albany, GA metro.
Leesburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leesburg$264,146
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Leesburg listings, and the typical home goes pending in 44 days — 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.
- Leesburg29.29%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Leesburg44
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leesburg138
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leesburg37
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Leesburg$259,997
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Leesburg99.48%
Zip codes with a Leesburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leesburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.