Mount Airy, Georgia.
Typical home $315,135 (+2.3% in a year). Cornelia, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,045 (+172%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,102 +2%
- $308,033$315,135 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,070 +41%
- $224,065$315,135 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.
- Mount Airy$1,654
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Mount Airy, GA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Airy, Habersham County, Georgia
Mount Airy is a town of 1,391 people in Habersham County. Half its households earn more than $87,868 a year and half less, against $67,309 across Habersham County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Habersham County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Airy is a small town in Habersham County, Georgia, in the northeast part of the state. Households here earn more than the county as a whole, and homes are valued at a fairly high level for a town of this size. Winters are mild and cool, with only a dusting of snow most years, summers are warm, and rain falls generously through the year. Not many adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in manufacturing, in the building trades, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Habersham County, some of the largest workplaces are Fieldale Farms, a poultry processor, Habersham County Schools, and Johnson & Johnson, which makes surgical and medical instruments. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Chenocetah Fire Tower, a tourist attraction, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Toccoa Falls, a waterfall, and the Soque River, where there is water to walk beside. Anna Ruby Falls, another waterfall, is a longer drive away.
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- 440households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Habersham County had 15,755 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cornelia weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Habersham County
- Fieldale FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,086
- Habersham County SchoolsSchool district1,240FTE
- Johnson JohnsonManufacturer of surgical and medical instruments811
- Piedmont UniversityUniversity or college330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- North Georgia Technical CollegeTwo-year college307
- SteelCell of North AmericaWarehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing257
- Solmax Geosynthetics, CorneliaTextile broadwoven fabrics mills255
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,430 people in all across the county; Mount Airy has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Airy’s 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 Habersham County and the Cornelia, GA metro.
Mount Airy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Airy$315,135
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mount Airy 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Airy18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Airy7
Zip codes with a Mount Airy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Airy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.