Meigs, Georgia.
Typical home $165,010 (+7.6% in a year). Thomasville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$427 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,691 +8%
- $153,319$165,010 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,760 +14%
- $144,250$165,010 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.
- Meigs$866
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Meigs, GA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Meigs, Mitchell County, Georgia
Meigs is a city of 928 people in Mitchell County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Mitchell County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mitchell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Meigs is a very small city in Mitchell County, Georgia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are modest, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Few adults here have a four-year degree, and the commute to work is a fairly long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Mitchell County, some of the largest workplaces are Keystone Foods, a poultry processor, along with Mitchell County Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Tired Creek Lake, a reservoir, and Lake Murphy, a lake, are both a longer drive away and are the nearest places for time on the water. For a day of local history, Pebble Hill Plantation is a museum, also a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 313households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Mitchell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mitchell County had 6,497 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 52 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Camilla Southeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mitchell County
- Keystone FoodsPoultry processing1,926
- Mitchell County SchoolsSchool district286FTE
- Pelham City SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters171
- State Specialty Schools II- Baconton Community Charter SchSchool district116FTE
- Keystone FoodsPoultry hatcheries66
- Liquid TransportTank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing63
- Keystone FoodsOther animal food manufacturing51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,499 people in all across the county; Meigs 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Meigs’ census tracts, 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 Mitchell County and the Thomasville, GA metro.
Meigs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Meigs$165,010
- 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.
- Meigs6
Zip codes with a Meigs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Meigs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.