States · Georgia · Jenkins County

Perkins, Georgia.

Typical home $210,773 (+9.7% in a year).

What it costs per month · Perkins $1,106/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+177%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $18,581 +10%
$192,192$210,773 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $61,622 +41%
$149,150$210,773 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Perkins $1,106 Georgia $1,727 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Perkins$1,106
  • Georgia$1,727
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.

Typical home values in Perkins, GA rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Perkins, Jenkins County, Georgia

Perkins, in Jenkins County, had 93 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jenkins County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jenkins County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 93 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Perkins for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 2.9% Jenkins County, August 2026; 3.4% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Perkins for the Census survey to measure.

Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perkins is a very small community in Jenkins County, Georgia, where neighbors tend to know one another. Its population is among the smallest of any place this page describes. Winters are mild here, and summers are hot, with rain falling more often than in much of the country.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Others work in manufacturing, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Jobs in the county grew over the past year.

Things to do. Magnolia Springs State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Bark Camp Creek, a river, is a longer drive away, as is George L. Smith State Park, another protected area.

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What people in Jenkins County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care21%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Manufacturing9%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities9%
  • Building trades9%
  • Banks, insurance and property8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jenkins County had 1,709 jobs in 2025, 4.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 58° and 34°; warmest in July, 92° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 58° 34° F M A M J J 92° 70° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 58° and 34°; warmest in July, 92° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 58° 34° F M A M J J 92° 70° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesboro South weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Jenkins County

  1. Jenkins County SchoolsSchool district184FTE
  2. MI Metals - MillenAluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum102
  3. Jenkins County Medical CenterCritical access hospital61FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 102 people in all across the county; Perkins 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

  1. DroughtRelatively high
  2. Strong windRelatively high
  3. HurricanesRelatively high
  4. TornadoesRelatively high
  5. Heat wavesRelatively high
  6. LightningRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perkins’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Jenkins County.

Perkins home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Perkins $210,773 Georgia $329,115 United States $366,157
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Perkins$210,773
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Perkins address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perkins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.