Lizella, Georgia.
Typical home $262,996 (+4.0% in a year). Macon-Bibb County, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$770 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,211 +4%
- $252,785$262,996 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,177 +29%
- $203,819$262,996 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.
- Lizella$1,380
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lizella, GA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lizella, Bibb County, Georgia
The Census does not count Lizella on its own, so the figures here are Bibb County's. Half the county's households earn more than $51,234 a year and half less; 25% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 51% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Bibb County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bibb County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lizella is a small town in Bibb County, in the middle of Georgia. Across the county, homes are more often rented than across the country as a whole, and winters are cool while summers run hot, with a good deal of rain over the year. Many residents live close to one another, and the county's incomes sit lower than across much of the country.
Work. Across Bibb County, most people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in manufacturing. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown a little. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national typical, and fewer people work from home than across the country.
Things to do. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known places nearby. Sweetwater Creek, a river, runs in or beside town, and Lake Tobesofkee, a lake, is a short drive away.
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- 59,921households
- 36.8median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Bibb County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bibb County had 79,940 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Macon Middle Ga Regional Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bibb County
- Bibb County SchoolsSchool district3,513FTE
- AHN the Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,511FTE
- Mercer UniversityUniversity or college1,935
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,310
- Middle Georgia State UniversityUniversity or college905
- Piedmont Macon Medical CenterGeneral hospital847FTE
- Nichiha USAConcrete, dry mixture, manufacturing588
- YKK USASlide fasteners manufacturing588
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 144 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,976 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bibb County, 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 Bibb County and the Macon-Bibb County, GA metro.
Lizella home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lizella$262,996
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lizella 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.
- Lizella25.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lizella40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lizella9
Zip codes with a Lizella address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lizella — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.