Newborn, Georgia.
Typical home $343,035 (+3.6% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,062 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,001 +4%
- $331,034$343,035 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,413 +25%
- $273,622$343,035 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.
- Newborn$1,801
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Newborn, GA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newborn, Jasper County, Georgia
Newborn is a town of 676 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $65,278 a year and half less, against $60,134 across Jasper County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newborn is a very small Georgia town, home to far fewer people than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect from a rural community. Homes are valued well above what many people would guess for the area.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing, with some in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jasper County, the biggest workplaces include Jasper County Schools, Jasper Memorial Hospital and Ingles Markets. Commutes are long, and a modest share of people work from home; the number of jobs in the county grew slightly last year.
Things to do. The Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center, a museum, is in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Hard Labor Creek State Park, a protected area, and to Rock Eagle Effigy Mound, an archaeological site. Winters are mild with very little snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 2,461 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Covington weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Jasper County SchoolsSchool district393FTE
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores89
- Unlimited Contract Services Shady DaleEgg production84
- Profile Products MonticelloRolling pins, wood, manufacturing82
- Jasper Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- Cal-Maine FoodsChicken egg production44
- The Pallet FactoryAmmunition boxes, wood, manufacturing42
- Oldcastle Lawn & GardenSawdust, regrinding37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 451 people in all across the county; Newborn 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newborn’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 Jasper County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Newborn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newborn$343,035
- 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.
- Newborn9
Zip codes with a Newborn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newborn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.