Shellman, Georgia.
Typical home $128,109 (+16.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$436 (+185%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,438 +17%
- $109,671$128,109 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,902 +40%
- $91,207$128,109 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.
- Shellman$672
- 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 Shellman, GA rose 16.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shellman, Randolph County, Georgia
Shellman is a city of 861 people in Randolph County. Half its households earn more than $28,859 a year and half less. Unemployment in Randolph County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shellman is a very small city in Randolph County, in the southwest part of Georgia, with a population well below what most towns of any kind would have. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and household incomes are low, though homes here cost far less than in most of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home.
Work. Across Randolph County, jobs became a little scarcer in the past year, and unemployment is no different from a year ago. The largest workplaces across the county include Randolph County Schools, Tyson Farms and Ethica Health, which reflects a local economy built around public education, food processing and care for older residents.
Things to do. Walk-Ikey Creek and Ichawaynochaway Creek are a short drive away and offer a chance to be near moving water. A longer drive brings you to Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, a protected area tied to the life of the former president, and to Kolomoki Mounds State Park, an archaeological site. Winters are mild and there is little or no snow, while summers are hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cuthbert weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Randolph County SchoolsSchool district148FTE
- Tyson FarmsRendering and meat byproduct processing134
- Ethica HealthNursing homes110
- State Specialty Schools II- Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M. CharSchool district71FTE
- Andrew CollegeUniversity or college69
- Flint Equipment Company Ag & Turf - CuthbertFarm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 266 people in all across the county; Shellman has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shellman’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 Randolph County.
Shellman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shellman$128,109
- 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 Shellman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shellman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Shellman
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39840 | Cuthbert | 4,469 | — | $83,235 |
| 39886 | Shellman | 1,386 | — | $132,576 |