Rex, Georgia.
Typical home $233,199 (-3.3% in a year), asking rent $1,962 (+3.9%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,031 -3%
- $241,230$233,199 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,219 +13%
- $205,979$233,199 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.
- Rex$1,224
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Rex, GA fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rex, GA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rex runs $319/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $548 in Aug 2021.
That is $1,643 a month against $1,962 rent: a $1,224 mortgage payment, plus $169 property tax and $250 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rex
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$1,643
- Renting$1,962
- Mortgage only$1,224
Property tax · $169/mo 0.87% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clayton County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $250/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 Rex, Clayton County, Georgia
The Census does not count Rex on its own, so the figures here are Clayton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $59,806 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 54% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Clayton County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clayton County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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. Rex is a town in Clayton County, Georgia, south of Atlanta. Its population is younger than is typical, and more homes are lived in by their owners than are rented. Winters are cold enough that nights often drop to freezing, summers are hot, snow is light and infrequent, and rain falls often enough that the area is quite wet across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment across Clayton County has fallen over the past year, though the county had slightly fewer jobs in the most recent year than the year before. Most residents travel to a workplace rather than working from home, and the usual trip to work is a moderate drive.
Things to do. Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a stadium that is one of the best known venues in the Atlanta area, is a longer drive away. The Georgia Aquarium, a large aquarium, and Zoo Atlanta, a zoo, are also a longer drive away.
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- 105,941households
- 33.7median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Clayton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clayton County had 129,649 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer 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 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jonesboro weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clayton County
- Delta Air Lines - ATL AirportScheduled air transportation23,185
- Clayton County SchoolsSchool district7,404FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,323
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,228
- Fresh ExpressSalads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing1,086
- State Specialty Schools I- Georgia Cyber AcademySchool district993FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services718
- R+L Carriers - ATLGeneral freight trucking long-distance less than truckload711
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 49,315 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clayton County, 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 Clayton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Rex home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rex$233,199
- 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 Rex listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Rex30.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rex70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rex18
Zip codes with a Rex address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rex — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.