Millwood, Georgia.
Typical home $221,972 (+2.1% in a year). Waycross, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$606 (+108%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $4,661 +2%
- $217,311$221,972 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,658 +20%
- $184,314$221,972 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.
- Millwood$1,165
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Millwood, GA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millwood, Ware County, Georgia
Millwood, in Ware County, had 72 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ware County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ware County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millwood is a small community in Ware County in southeast Georgia, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and rain is common through much of the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Unemployment in Ware County is lower than it was last year, though the number of jobs there dipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The Satilla River is a longer drive away and suits people who enjoy being on the water. General Coffee State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area, and Okefenokee Swamp Park, a museum a longer drive away, shows visitors the wetlands of the region.
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What people in Ware County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ware County had 14,273 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Homerville North weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ware County
- Ware County SchoolsSchool district1,062FTE
- Memorial Satilla HealthGeneral hospital435FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters341
- Coastal Pines Technical CollegeTwo-year college302
- GATX Waycross GeorgiaLocomotive and rail car repair280
- Live Oak Homes Plant 1Buildings, mobile, commercial use, manufacturing268
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing239
- FedExCourier and express delivery services176
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,303 people in all across the county; Millwood has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Millwood’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 Ware County and the Waycross, GA metro.
Millwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millwood$221,972
- 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 Millwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.