Pooler, Georgia.
Typical home $339,397 (-4.5% in a year), asking rent $1,827 (-1.1%). Savannah, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$941 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,960 -4%
- $355,358$339,397 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,916 +25%
- $271,481$339,397 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.
- Pooler$1,781
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Pooler, GA fell 4.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pooler, GA fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pooler runs $555/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $750 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,382 a month against $1,827 rent: a $1,781 mortgage payment, plus $237 property tax and $363 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pooler
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,382
- Renting$1,827
- Mortgage only$1,781
Property tax · $237/mo 0.84% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Chatham County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $363/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pooler, Chatham County, Georgia
Pooler is a city of 25,711 people in Chatham County. Half its households earn more than $91,766 a year and half less, against $71,097 across Chatham County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Pooler was 2.6% in August 2026, and Chatham County had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Pooler is a city in Chatham County, Georgia, with residents who skew somewhat younger than in many American towns. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in Pooler include Amazon, JCB and Walmart. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with a fair number of people working from home.
Things to do. The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is a museum in or beside town. A short drive away, Forsyth Park is a well-known park in Savannah, and the SCAD Museum of Art is an art museum. For a longer outing, Fort Pulaski National Monument is a historic fort a longer drive away.
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- 11,650households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chatham County had 172,740 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Savannah International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pooler
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage895
- JCBConstruction machinery manufacturing792
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores187
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores181
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters175
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter161
- J.c. Lewis Ford PoolerNew car dealers108
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,321 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pooler’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Chatham County and the Savannah, GA metro.
Pooler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pooler$339,397
- 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 Pooler listings, and the typical home goes pending in 55 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Pooler29.85%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pooler55
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pooler250
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pooler42
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pooler$356,617
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pooler98.32%
Zip codes with a Pooler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pooler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.