Portal, Georgia.
Typical home $219,121 (+2.3% in a year). Statesboro, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$714 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,826 +2%
- $214,295$219,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,979 +41%
- $155,141$219,121 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.
- Portal$1,150
- 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 Portal, GA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Portal, Bulloch County, Georgia
Portal is a town of 638 people in Bulloch County. Half its households earn more than $62,083 a year and half less, against $58,810 across Bulloch County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Bulloch County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bulloch County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Portal is a very small town in Bulloch County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes sell at a middling price for the region. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is a fairly long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Bulloch County, the largest workplaces include Georgia Southern University, Bulloch County Schools and East Georgia Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and there are slightly more jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. George L. Smith State Park, a protected area, and Magnolia Springs State Park, another, are both a longer drive away and suit anyone who likes time outdoors. Georgia Southern Botanical Garden is also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year, so the outdoor places can be enjoyed in most seasons.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Bulloch County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bulloch County had 28,815 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Ford 4SE weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bulloch County
- Georgia Southern UniversityUniversity or college2,995
- Bulloch County SchoolsSchool district1,651FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage780
- East Georgia Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital738FTE
- Briggs and StrattonGasoline engines manufacturing420
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters389
- H.A. Sack. CO., LLC Statesboro EstablishmentsFire alarm system, electric, installation only380
- AjinMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing350
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,840 people in all across the county; Portal has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Portal’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 Bulloch County and the Statesboro, GA metro.
Portal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Portal$219,121
- 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.
- Portal9
Zip codes with a Portal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Portal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.