Rock Spring, Georgia.
Typical home $321,264 (+1.8% in a year). Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$973 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,570 +2%
- $315,694$321,264 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,500 +31%
- $245,764$321,264 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.
- Rock Spring$1,686
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Rock Spring, GA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rock Spring, Walker County, Georgia
Rock Spring, in Walker County, had 891 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Walker County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Walker County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rock Spring is a small community in Walker County, in the northwest corner of Georgia, with a very small population at the most recent count. Homes here are typically worth more than a visitor from many parts of rural Georgia might expect, while household incomes across Walker County are on the modest side. Winters are cool and short, with only a dusting of snow most years, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services close behind. Across Walker County, the largest workplaces include Roper Corporation in Lafayette, which makes household cooking ranges, Walker County Schools, and Shaw Industries Group, a textile maker. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs slipped slightly last year, and a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, a historic battlefield site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Chattanooga's Tennessee Aquarium and Ruby Falls, a waterfall reached through a cave. The Hunter Museum of American Art, also a longer drive away, is a good option for a quieter day.
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What people in Walker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walker County had 14,867 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chickamauga Southwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walker County
- Supply Chain : Roper Corporation, LafayetteRanges, household-type cooking, manufacturing2,505
- Walker County SchoolsSchool district1,436FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupAll other misc textile product mills616
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- See Rock CityTourist guide services275
- Viking IndustrialMechanical contractors250
- Shaw Industries GroupThread, all fibers, manufacturing225
- Parkside Nursing and RehabNursing homes206
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,352 people in all across the county; Rock Spring has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rock Spring’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 Walker County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Rock Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rock Spring$321,264
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rock Spring listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Rock Spring34.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rock Spring20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rock Spring6
Zip codes with a Rock Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rock Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.