Rockledge, Georgia.
Typical home $168,113 (+4.5% in a year). Dublin, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,234 +4%
- $160,879$168,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,054 +8%
- $156,059$168,113 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.
- Rockledge$882
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Rockledge, GA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockledge, Laurens County, Georgia
The Census does not count Rockledge on its own, so the figures here are Laurens County's. Half the county's households earn more than $55,010 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Laurens County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Laurens County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockledge is a small community in Laurens County, Georgia, where people of many ages live side by side. Across Laurens County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households have modest incomes. The town sits in a region of farms, woods and waterways, and its residents tend to know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, building trades and manufacturing. Across Laurens County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs grew over the past year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people commute by car, usually for a shorter trip than in larger cities.
Things to do. Little Ocmulgee State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is the best known place to visit nearby. The rivers Whitley Branch and Ochwalkee Creek are also a longer drive away and suit those who enjoy quiet time by the water.
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- 18,592households
- 39.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Laurens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Laurens County had 20,291 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dublin weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Laurens County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,597
- Laurens County SchoolsSchool district889FTE
- YKK AP AmericaFrames, door and window, metal, manufacturing528
- Fairview Park HospitalGeneral hospital527FTE
- Dublin City SchoolsSchool district378FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- WestRock SoutheastPapermill294
- Parker HannifinOther guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing205
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,453 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), 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
- DroughtRelatively 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 across Laurens County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Laurens County and the Dublin, GA metro.
Rockledge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockledge$168,113
- 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 Rockledge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockledge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.