Pine Mountain, Georgia.
Typical home $302,064 (+3.6% in a year). Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$925 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,483 +4%
- $291,581$302,064 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,518 +36%
- $222,546$302,064 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.
- Pine Mountain$1,585
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Pine Mountain, GA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia
Pine Mountain is a town of 1,216 people in Harris County. Unemployment in Harris County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harris County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Mountain is a small town in Harris County, Georgia, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Adults here are more likely to hold a four-year degree than the average American adult, and home values sit in the middle of the national range. Winters are cool and mostly mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Harris County, some of the largest workplaces are Koch Foods of Pine Mountain Valley, Harris County Schools and Hyundai Transys Georgia Powertrain. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has more jobs than it did a year earlier. Commutes are moderate, and a modest number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Callaway Gardens, a botanical garden, and F. D. Roosevelt State Park, a protected area, are both in or beside town, along with the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center. The Little White House, a museum, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Springer Opera House, a theatre, is a longer drive away.
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- 534households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Harris County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 6,950 jobs in 2025, 6.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the La Grange 1N weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harris County
- Koch Foods of Pine Mountain ValleyPoultry processing955
- Harris County SchoolsSchool district835FTE
- Hyundai Transys Gerogia PowertrainAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing625
- Glovis GeorgiaGeneral warehousing and storage423
- Daehan Solution GeorgiaMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing315
- AdientSeats for public conveyances, manufacturing254
- Koch FoodsBuilding cleaning services, interior76
- Impact 360 InstituteColleges, universities, and professional schools74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,900 people in all across the county; Pine Mountain has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pine Mountain’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 Harris County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Pine Mountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine Mountain$302,064
- 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 4 Pine Mountain listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Pine Mountain22.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pine Mountain46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pine Mountain10
Zip codes with a Pine Mountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Mountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.