Newton, Georgia.
Typical home $111,105 (+0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$133 (+30%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $328 +0%
- $110,777$111,105 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.
- Newton$583
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Newton, GA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newton, Baker County, Georgia
Newton is a city of 602 people in Baker County. Unemployment in Baker County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baker 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newton is a very small city in Baker County, in southwest Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country. The weather is mild in winter, with cool days and nights that stay above freezing most of the time, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year, which is more than many parts of the country see.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing next, followed by farming, forestry and mining, and by restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Baker County has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier. A typical commute is a short one by most standards.
Things to do. The closest things to do are a longer drive away. Kinchafoonee Creek is a river for time on the water, and the Flint RiverQuarium is an aquarium. Chehaw Park is a zoo, and the Albany Museum of Art offers indoor browsing when the summer heat sets in.
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- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Baker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baker County had 454 jobs in 2025, 3.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newton’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 Baker County.
Newton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newton$111,105
- 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 Newton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.