Mc Rae, Georgia.
Typical home $119,921 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$332 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,217 +3%
- $116,704$119,921 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,190 +11%
- $107,731$119,921 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.
- Mc Rae$629
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Mc Rae, GA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mc Rae, Telfair County, Georgia
Mc Rae is a city of 6,253 people in Telfair County. Unemployment in Telfair County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McRae is a small city in Telfair County, Georgia, where residents tend to be somewhat older than across the country as a whole. Winters are mild, with cold spells in January that stay well above freezing in the daytime, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and a little melted snow fall in good amounts through the year. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in wholesale, and in the building trades. Across Telfair County, the largest workplaces include Telfair County Schools and Telfair Forest Products, which makes sawdust and shavings, along with Graceland Properties, a maker of prefabricated wood buildings. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Few people work from home.
Things to do. Little Ocmulgee State Park, a protected area in or beside town, is the nearest place to get outdoors. Gum Swamp Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Broxton Rocks, another protected area, is a longer drive.
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- 1,577households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Telfair County had 2,120 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eastman West weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Telfair County
- Telfair County SchoolsSchool district243FTE
- Telfair Forest ProductsSawdust and shavings manufacturing48
- Graceland PropertiesBuildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79 people in all across the county; Mc Rae has two 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of Mc RaeRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Mc RaeRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Mc RaeRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of Mc RaeRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mc Rae’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 Telfair County.
Mc Rae home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mc Rae$119,921
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Mc Rae listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mc Rae18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mc Rae3
Zip codes with a Mc Rae address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mc Rae — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.