Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Typical home $81,789 (-3.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$236 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,112 -4%
- $84,901$81,789 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,551 +18%
- $69,238$81,789 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.
- Oglethorpe$429
- 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 Oglethorpe, GA fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oglethorpe, Macon County, Georgia
Oglethorpe is a city of 995 people in Macon County. Unemployment in Macon County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 8.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Macon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oglethorpe is a very small city in Macon County, Georgia, where people tend to know one another. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county run on the low side. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Macon County, the largest workplaces include International Paper, Macon County Schools and Flint River Community Hospital. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though there are fewer jobs in the county than there were the year before, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Andersonville National Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is Whitewater Creek, a river for time outdoors. A longer drive takes you to Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, another protected area. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 458households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
What people in Macon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 2,624 jobs in 2025, 8.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Americus weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macon County
- International PaperMill373
- Macon County SchoolsSchool district216FTE
- Montezuma Health and RehabilitationNursing homes76
- UAC AcquisitionPoultry catching services68
- House of RaefordEgg hatcheries, poultry62
- Flint River Community HospitalGeneral hospital40FTE
- House of RaefordEgg hatcheries, poultry24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 603 people in all across the county; Oglethorpe has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oglethorpe’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 Macon County.
Oglethorpe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oglethorpe$81,789
- 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.
- Oglethorpe8
Zip codes with a Oglethorpe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oglethorpe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.