Midland, Georgia.
Typical home $392,540 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,695 . Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,079 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,677 +3%
- $381,863$392,540 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,161 +25%
- $314,379$392,540 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.
- Midland$2,060
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Midland, GA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midland, Muscogee County, Georgia
The Census does not count Midland on its own, so the figures here are Muscogee County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,073 a year and half less; 19% 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 Muscogee County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Muscogee County work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midland is a town in Muscogee County, in western Georgia. Many of its homes are lived in by their owners, and more of them are owner-occupied than rented, which gives the streets a settled feel. Winters are cold enough that people keep a coat handy, while summers are hot and the year is wet, with rain and melted snow falling across the seasons. Neighbours tend to know one another, and the pace is unhurried.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in banks, insurance and property. Others work in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Employment has held roughly level over the past year, and unemployment has eased a little since the year before. Most people drive to their jobs, though some work from home.
Things to do. Little White House is a museum a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known places to visit nearby. Callaway Gardens, also a longer drive away, is a botanical garden. F. D. Roosevelt State Park, a longer drive away, is a protected area of woods and trails.
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- 81,415households
- 35.4median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Muscogee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muscogee County had 89,113 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus #2 weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Muscogee County
- Muscogee County SchoolsSchool district4,395FTE
- Piedmont Columbus Regional MidtownGeneral hospital2,046FTE
- St. Francis HospitalGeneral hospital1,521FTE
- Columbus State UniversityUniversity or college1,075
- West Central GA Regional HospitalPsychiatric hospital500FTE
- Piedmont Columbus Regional NorthsideGeneral hospital460FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters380
- Hostess Brands LLC- ColumbusCommercial bakeries350
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 128 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,740 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Muscogee County, 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 Muscogee County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Midland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midland$392,540
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Midland listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Midland25.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Midland33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Midland9
Zip codes with a Midland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.