Sardis, Georgia.
Typical home $108,581 (+6.6% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$307 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,739 +7%
- $101,842$108,581 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,163 +11%
- $97,418$108,581 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.
- Sardis$570
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Sardis, GA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sardis, Burke County, Georgia
Sardis is a city of 995 people in Burke County. Unemployment in Burke County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Burke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sardis is a very small city in Burke County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, while summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow arrive in good amounts across the year. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Burke County, the largest workplaces include Burke County Schools, Burke Medical Center and Ingevity Georgia, a ceramic fiber manufacturer. Household incomes in the county are modest, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year. Few people work from home.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw, though each is a longer drive away. Magnolia Springs State Park is a protected area, and Lake Warren State Park is another. For time on the water, Lake Brown is a lake, and Brier Creek is a river that suits a quiet afternoon.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Burke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burke County had 7,322 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesboro South weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burke County
- Burke County SchoolsSchool district779FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters197
- Burke Medical CenterGeneral hospital186FTE
- Ingevity GeorgiaCeramic fiber manufacturing185
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores44
- TMC Transformers USASpecialty transformers, electric, manufacturing30
- WaynesboroMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 478 people in all across the county; Sardis 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Sardis’ 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 Burke County and the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
Sardis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sardis$108,581
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sardis5
Zip codes with a Sardis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sardis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.