Millen, Georgia.
Typical home $147,871 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$500 (+181%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $988 -1%
- $148,860$147,871 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,333 +39%
- $106,538$147,871 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.
- Millen$776
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Millen, GA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millen, Jenkins County, Georgia
Millen is a city of 2,966 people in Jenkins County. Unemployment in Jenkins County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millen is a small Georgia city and the seat of Jenkins County. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the typical American level. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and afternoons that stay well above freezing, while July summers run hot. Rain falls through the year, and snow is rare enough to count as a small part of the yearly total.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in government. Across Jenkins County, the biggest workplaces include Jenkins County Schools, MI Metals in Millen, which makes aluminum bar, and Jenkins County Medical Center. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across the country. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Magnolia Springs State Park is a protected area a short drive away and the nearest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, George L. Smith State Park is another protected area, and Bark Camp Creek is a river, both a longer drive away. Those who like a day out can also head a longer drive to the Georgia Southern Botanical Garden.
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- 1,117households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jenkins County had 1,709 jobs in 2025, 4.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Ford 4SE weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jenkins County
- Jenkins County SchoolsSchool district184FTE
- MI Metals - MillenAluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum102
- Jenkins County Medical CenterCritical access hospital61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 102 people in all across the county; Millen has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Millen’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Jenkins County.
Millen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millen$147,871
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Millen 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.
- Millen22.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Millen31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Millen4
Zip codes with a Millen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.