Lyerly, Georgia.
Typical home $184,684 (+3.8% in a year). Summerville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$311 (+47%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,689 +4%
- $177,995$184,684 since Sep 2025
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.
- Lyerly$969
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lyerly, GA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyerly, Chattooga County, Georgia
Lyerly is a town of 454 people in Chattooga County. Unemployment in Chattooga County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chattooga County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lyerly is a very small town in Chattooga County, in northwest Georgia, with fewer people than almost any town most visitors will have heard of. Incomes across the county run below the Georgia norm, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with professional and business services also employing a share. Across Chattooga County, some of the largest workplaces are Mohawk Industries, Chattooga County Schools and Mt Vernon Mills. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Taliaferro Creek runs in or beside town, and James H. Floyd State Park and the Rocky Mountain Project, both protected areas, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Little River Canyon National Preserve is a protected area a longer drive away, and DeSoto Falls is a waterfall also a longer drive away. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Chattooga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chattooga County had 5,079 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Summerville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chattooga County
- Mohawk IndustriesRecycling550
- Chattooga County SchoolsSchool district425FTE
- Mt Vernon Mills424
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
- Trion City SchoolsSchool district172FTE
- Oakview Health & Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes154
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores73
- SummervilleMail and parcel delivery37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,575 people in all across the county; Lyerly 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lyerly’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 Chattooga County and the Summerville, GA metro.
Lyerly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyerly$184,684
- 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 Lyerly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyerly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.