Lenox, Georgia.
Typical home $153,155 (+5.5% in a year). Moultrie, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,966 +5%
- $145,189$153,155 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,324 +18%
- $129,831$153,155 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.
- Lenox$804
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Lenox, GA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lenox, Cook County, Georgia
Lenox is a town of 752 people in Cook County. Unemployment in Cook County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cook 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lenox is a very small town in Cook County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Incomes are modest, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical, while home values are low. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot. Rain falls through the year in good measure.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Cook County, some of the largest workplaces are Cook County Schools, Walmart and Southwell Medical. Very few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, though unemployment there has stayed about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Reed Bingham State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the best known place nearby. Farther out, the Satilla River offers a longer drive to some open water. Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area a longer drive away, and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village is a museum for anyone curious about the region's farming past.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Cook County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cook County had 4,540 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer 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 90° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tifton weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cook County
- Cook County SchoolsSchool district554FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters226
- BASF Agricultural Solutions USPesticides manufacturing181
- Southwell MedicalGeneral hospital151FTE
- JM EaglePvc pipe manufacturing106
- Hornet Steel BuildingsPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing81
- Cardinal060
- Steel Building SystemsBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing58
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,269 people in all across the county; Lenox 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lenox’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cook County and the Moultrie, GA metro.
Lenox home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lenox$153,155
- 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 Lenox address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lenox — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.