Mount Vernon, Georgia.
Typical home $143,559 (+4.7% in a year). Vidalia, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$390 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,388 +5%
- $137,171$143,559 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,705 +15%
- $124,854$143,559 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 Vernon$754
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Mount Vernon, GA rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Vernon, Montgomery County, Georgia
Mount Vernon is a city of 1,990 people in Montgomery County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Vernon is a small city in Montgomery County, Georgia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery County Schools, Brewton-Parker College and Builders FirstSource. Most people commute a fairly short distance, and some work from home.
Things to do. Ochwalkee Creek runs in or beside town, a river for time outdoors close to home. A longer drive away are the protected areas of Little Ocmulgee State Park and Jack Hill State Park, along with several more creeks and rivers, including Alligator Creek and the Little Ocmulgee River.
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- 699households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 1,518 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazlehurst weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Montgomery County SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Brewton-Parker CollegeUniversity or college168
- Builders FirstSourceCustom architectural woodwork and millwork manufacturing64
- Builders FirstSourceLumber plywood millwork and wood panel merchant wholesalers40
- Southern Crown Partners LLC - VIDBeer merchant wholesalers35
- Compass Group31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 170 people in all across the county; Mount Vernon has one 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Mount Vernon’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 Montgomery County and the Vidalia, GA metro.
Mount Vernon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Vernon$143,559
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Vernon10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mount Vernon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Vernon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.