Ocilla, Georgia.
Typical home $136,104 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$374 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,436 +3%
- $132,667$136,104 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,724 +18%
- $115,380$136,104 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.
- Ocilla$714
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Ocilla, GA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ocilla, Irwin County, Georgia
Ocilla is a city of 3,498 people in Irwin County. Unemployment in Irwin County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Irwin County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ocilla is a small city and the seat of Irwin County, in south Georgia. Residents are of middle age on the whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and other services also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Ocilla are Irwin County Hospital, Adama and Irwin Electric Membership. The typical trip to work is short, and nobody works from home.
Things to do. The Blue and Gray Museum is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to General Coffee State Park, a protected area, and to the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village. The Satilla River is also a longer drive away, for time spent by the water.
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- 1,036households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Irwin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Irwin County had 1,930 jobs in 2025, 5.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fitzgerald weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ocilla
- Irwin County HospitalGeneral hospital97FTE
- Irwin County REHGeneral hospital84FTE
- AdamaCholinesterse inhibitors used as insecticides manufacturing80
- Irwin Electric MembershipDistribution of electric power48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 128 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Ocilla’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 Irwin County.
Ocilla home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ocilla$136,104
- 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.
- Ocilla13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ocilla address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ocilla — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.