Oxford, Georgia.
Typical home $344,638 (+1.2% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,005 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,051 +1%
- $340,588$344,638 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,042 +19%
- $288,596$344,638 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.
- Oxford$1,809
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Oxford, GA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia
Oxford is a city of 2,308 people in Newton County. Half its households earn more than $56,563 a year and half less, against $77,179 across Newton County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oxford is a small city, and a very young one: the median age is far below what you would find in most American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though a good number of households do rent. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year with only a dusting of snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Newton County, the largest workplaces include Newton County Schools, Piedmont Newton Hospital and General Mills Covington Site. The commute is a fairly typical one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Big Haynes Creek is a river a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hard Labor Creek State Park, a protected area, and to Zoo Atlanta. The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is another longer drive, for those who like history.
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- 558households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 27,786 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- Newton County SchoolsSchool district2,607FTE
- BD CovingtonCatheters manufacturing808
- Piedmont Newton HospitalGeneral hospital700FTE
- General Mills Covington SiteBreakfast cereals manufacturing505
- PactivPolystyrene foam product manufacturing447
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters364
- Nisshinbo Automotive ManufacturingBrake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing354
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,204 people in all across the county; Oxford has two 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Oxford’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 Newton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Oxford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oxford$344,638
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Oxford listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Oxford34.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oxford66
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oxford13
Zip codes with a Oxford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oxford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.