Plainville, Georgia.
Typical home $218,907 (+2.0% in a year). Calhoun, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$683 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,288 +2%
- $214,618$218,907 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,712 +34%
- $163,194$218,907 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.
- Plainville$1,149
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Plainville, GA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainville, Gordon County, Georgia
Plainville is a city of 356 people in Gordon County. Unemployment in Gordon County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gordon County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainville is a very small city in Gordon County, Georgia, where most people know one another by sight if not by name. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while summers run hot and July is the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year, so the area stays green. Across Gordon County, household incomes sit close to the middle of what many Georgia counties see, and few adults in town hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Gordon County, some of the largest workplaces are Mohawk Industries, AdventHealth Gordon and Gordon County Schools. Work from home is uncommon here, and across the county unemployment has eased slightly over the past year while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Armuchee Creek and Oothkalooga Creek are both a short drive away and make easy places to walk beside the water. A longer drive brings you to the Etowah Indian Mounds, an archaeological site, and to Tellus Science Museum, which suits an afternoon indoors. The Etowah River is also a longer drive away for those who like to be near a larger river.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Gordon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gordon County had 25,007 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rome R B Russell Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gordon County
- Adventhealth GordonGeneral hospital919FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesSales871
- Gordon County SchoolsSchool district868FTE
- Mannington MillsCarpets and rugs made from textile materials695
- Calhoun City SchoolsSchool district457FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupThread, all fibers, manufacturing446
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials440
- Shaw IndustriesPrivate warehousing and storage except farm products, general merchandise, refrigerated439
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,866 people in all across the county; Plainville has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainville’s 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 Gordon County and the Calhoun, GA metro.
Plainville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainville$218,907
- 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.
- Plainville13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Plainville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.