Lexington, Georgia.
Typical home $295,092 (+3.7% in a year). Athens-Clarke County, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$906 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,499 +4%
- $284,593$295,092 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,050 +37%
- $216,042$295,092 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.
- Lexington$1,549
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Lexington, GA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia
Lexington is a city of 203 people in Oglethorpe County. Unemployment in Oglethorpe County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 6.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oglethorpe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lexington is a very small city, one of the smallest places a person could call a hometown, and the seat of Oglethorpe County in northeast Georgia. Homes here are typically valued well below what many buyers expect to pay elsewhere in the state, while county incomes sit comfortably above what the typical home would suggest. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot; rain falls through the year in good measure.
Work. Residents of Lexington work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Oglethorpe County, the largest workplaces are Oglethorpe County Schools and Raven Products, a ropes manufacturer. Jobs across the county have grown fewer than they were a year earlier, though unemployment has stayed low and slipped a little over the past year. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Watson Mill Bridge State Park and A. H. Stephens State Park are protected areas to visit, each a longer drive away. The Oconee River also lies a longer drive away for those who like to be near water. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is another longer drive away and suits a slow afternoon of walking.
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- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Oglethorpe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oglethorpe County had 1,958 jobs in 2025, 6.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oglethorpe County
- Oglethorpe County SchoolsSchool district385FTE
- Raven ProductsRopes manufacturing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 25 people in all across the county; Lexington has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lexington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Oglethorpe County and the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro.
Lexington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lexington$295,092
- 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.
- Lexington13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lexington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lexington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.