Rossville, Georgia.
Typical home $214,772 (-2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,375 (+5.4%). Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$647 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,352 -2%
- $220,124$214,772 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,309 +19%
- $180,464$214,772 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.
- Rossville$1,127
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Rossville, GA fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rossville, GA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rossville runs $117/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $306 in Jan 2025.
That is $1,492 a month against $1,375 rent: a $1,127 mortgage payment, plus $134 property tax and $230 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rossville
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$1,492
- Renting$1,375
- Mortgage only$1,127
Property tax · $134/mo 0.75% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Walker County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $230/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 Rossville, Walker County, Georgia
Rossville is a city of 3,980 people in Walker County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rossville is a small city in Walker County, Georgia, right at the Tennessee line and close to Chattanooga. Its residents skew older than in much of the country, and incomes in the county run a little below the national picture. Homes here are typically priced well within reach, though renting costs more than the home values might suggest. Winters are cold but short, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing a good share. Within Rossville itself, the larger workplaces include NHC HealthCare Rossville, a skilled nursing facility, and K VA T Food Stores, a supermarket. Walker County has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment has edged down slightly from a year earlier.
Things to do. Close to home, Lake Winnepesaukah is an amusement park in or beside town, and Chattanooga Creek runs nearby. A short drive brings you to Ruby Falls, a waterfall, and to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, an archaeological site. The Tennessee Aquarium is also a short drive away.
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- 1,720households
- 14%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
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 46° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 67°. About 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lookout Mtn-point Park weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rossville
- NHC HealthCare RossvilleSkilled nursing facilities108
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket45
- RossvilleMail and parcel delivery43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 196 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rossville’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 Walker County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Rossville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rossville$214,772
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rossville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 44 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.
- Rossville35.40%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rossville44
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rossville135
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rossville32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rossville$210,252
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rossville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rossville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.