Morven, Georgia.
Typical home $144,419 (+7.6% in a year). Valdosta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$262 (+53%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $10,149 +8%
- $134,270$144,419 since Sep 2025
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.
- Morven$758
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Morven, GA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morven, Brooks County, Georgia
Morven is a city of 506 people in Brooks County. Unemployment in Brooks County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brooks 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morven is a very small city in Brooks County, in south Georgia. Home values here are fairly modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and nights that sometimes dip close to freezing, and summers are hot.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Brooks County, the largest workplaces include Brooks County Schools, Fellowship Senior Living and Langboard. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and there are slightly more jobs than there were.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Reed Bingham State Park is a protected area, and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge is another, both a longer drive away. Wild Adventures, an amusement park, is also a longer drive from town. The Little River, a river, is another longer drive for those who like to be near water.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Brooks County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brooks County had 3,363 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Quitman Northwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brooks County
- Brooks County SchoolsSchool district392FTE
- Fellowship Senior Living623312 assisted living facilities for the elderly375
- Crown Health Care Laundry ServicesHealthcare laundry processing location210
- Presbyterian Home, QuitmanNursing agencies, primarily providing home nursing services201
- LangboardReconstituted wood sheets and boards manufacturing148
- ANAPoultry hatcheries101
- Brooks County HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- Food LionGrocery store61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,238 people in all across the county; Morven has none 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morven’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 Brooks County and the Valdosta, GA metro.
Morven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morven$144,419
- 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 Morven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.