Rockmart, Georgia.
Typical home $254,373 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $1,747 . Cedartown, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$810 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,334 +1%
- $251,039$254,373 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,772 +29%
- $196,601$254,373 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.
- Rockmart$1,335
- 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 Rockmart, GA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Rockmart, Polk County, Georgia
Rockmart is a city of 4,732 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $56,828 a year and half less, against $58,515 across Polk County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Polk County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Polk County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockmart is a small city in Polk County, Georgia, with residents who skew somewhat older than the typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's, though few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain or melted snow falling through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Silver Comet Foods, a poultry processing plant, Axillon Aerospace, which makes airframe assemblies, and Ingles Markets, a grocery chain. The commute to work is moderate, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Dorene, a reservoir in or beside town, is the closest spot for time near the water, and Coots Lake, another reservoir, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Etowah Indian Mounds, an archaeological site, lie a longer drive away.
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- 1,992households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Polk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 11,132 jobs in 2025, 0.2% 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 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cedartown weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockmart
- Silver Comet FoodsProcessed poultry manufacturing734
- Axillon Aerospace (Rockmart)Airframe assemblies manufacturing732
- The Cottages at RockmartNursing homes142
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores75
- Summit Grading ServicesDirt moving for construction66
- Deep South Industrial ServicesTank cleaning and disposal services, commercial or industrial60
- RockmartMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,835 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockmart’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 Polk County and the Cedartown, GA metro.
Rockmart home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockmart$254,373
- 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 Rockmart listings, and the typical home goes pending in 47 days — 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.
- Rockmart32.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rockmart47
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockmart108
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rockmart27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rockmart$246,777
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Rockmart address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockmart — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.