Rocky Ford, Georgia.
Typical home $184,953 (+15.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$610 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,060 +16%
- $159,894$184,953 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,251 +40%
- $131,702$184,953 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.
- Rocky Ford$971
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Rocky Ford, GA rose 15.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rocky Ford, Screven County, Georgia
Rocky Ford is a town of 167 people in Screven County. Unemployment in Screven County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Screven 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rocky Ford is a very small town in Screven County, Georgia, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with most of the country, and home values sit at a modest level for the state. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year, with snow rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Screven County, some of the largest workplaces are Koyo Bearings NA, which makes needle roller bearings, Screven County Schools, and Screven County Hospital. Most people drive a fair way to get to work, longer than many commuters elsewhere would expect, and incomes across the county run below the national level.
Things to do. Magnolia Springs State Park and George L. Smith State Park are both protected areas, good for time outdoors, and each is a longer drive away. Bark Camp Creek is a river, also a longer drive away, for those who like to be near the water. Georgia Southern Botanical Garden is another longer drive and suits a quiet afternoon among plants.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Screven County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Screven County had 2,946 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more 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 92° and lows near 71°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Ford 4SE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Screven County
- Koyo Bearings NANeedle roller bearings manufacturing391
- Screven County SchoolsSchool district335FTE
- Food LionGrocery store65
- Screven County HospitalCritical access hospital62FTE
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores32
- SylvaniaMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 616 people in all across the county; Rocky Ford has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rocky Ford’s census tracts, 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 Screven County.
Rocky Ford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rocky Ford$184,953
- 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 Rocky Ford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rocky Ford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.