Leslie, Georgia.
Typical home $128,724 (+9.8% in a year). Americus, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$395 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,525 +10%
- $117,199$128,724 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,594 +31%
- $98,130$128,724 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.
- Leslie$676
- 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 Leslie, GA rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leslie, Sumter County, Georgia
Leslie is a city of 344 people in Sumter County. Half its households earn more than $55,598 a year and half less, against $42,653 across Sumter County. Unemployment in Sumter County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sumter 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leslie is a very small city in Sumter County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and the typical home is valued modestly. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Sumter County, some of the largest workplaces are Sumter County Schools, Phoebe Sumter Medical Center and Georgia Southwestern State University. Very few people work from home, and the county has seen a small dip in jobs over the past year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Things to do. The Georgia Rural Telephone Museum is in or beside town and is the easiest stop for a visit. A longer drive brings you to Andersonville National Historic Site and Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, both protected areas tied to national history. Lake Blackshear, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away and suits a day on the water.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Sumter County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sumter County had 9,680 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Americus weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sumter County
- Sumter County SchoolsSchool district592FTE
- Phoebe Sumter Medical CenterGeneral hospital402FTE
- Georgia Southwestern State UniversityUniversity or college378
- Magnolia ManorSkilled nursing facilities332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- South Georgia Technical CollegeTwo-year college214
- TSGGaskets manufacturing148
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,732 people in all across the county; Leslie has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leslie’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Sumter County and the Americus, GA metro.
Leslie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leslie$128,724
- 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 Leslie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leslie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.