Preston, Georgia.
Typical home $124,597 (+10.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$390 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,851 +11%
- $112,747$124,597 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,056 +26%
- $98,541$124,597 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.
- Preston$654
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Preston, GA rose 10.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Preston, Webster County, Georgia
The Census does not count Preston on its own, so the figures here are Webster County's. Half the county's households earn more than $46,792 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Webster County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 7.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Webster County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Preston is a quiet rural town in Georgia, in Webster County, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Many residents live on modest incomes, and a good number are below the poverty line, so households often look after one another. Home values here are low compared with much of the country, and the town suits people who prefer a slower pace.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Jobs fell last year and unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people drive a fair way to work and seldom work from home.
Things to do. Jimmy Carter National Historical Park is a protected area a short drive away, and it is a good place for a day out. Andersonville National Historic Site, another protected area, and Providence Canyon State Park are both a longer drive away. Bear Creek, a river, is also a longer drive, and it makes a pleasant outing for anyone who enjoys water.
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- 843households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Webster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webster County had 456 jobs in 2025, 7.5% fewer 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 90° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plains Southwest Ga Experiment Station weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster County
- Interfor US Inc - Preston DivisionSawmills190
- Webster County SchoolsSchool district49FTE
- Merritt Pecan CoNuts merchant wholesalers27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Webster County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Webster County.
Preston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Preston$124,597
- 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.
Zip codes with a Preston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Preston — 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.