Smithville, Georgia.
Typical home $149,781 (+6.8% in a year). Albany, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$453 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,563 +7%
- $140,218$149,781 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,102 +32%
- $113,679$149,781 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.
- Smithville$786
- 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 Smithville, GA rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smithville, Lee County, Georgia
Smithville is a city of 593 people in Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smithville is a very small city in southwest Georgia, in Lee County, and it is the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, or in professional and business services. Across Lee County, the largest workplaces include Lee County Schools, Walmart and Oxford Construction Company. Unemployment in the county has been low, and it edged down over the past year, while the number of jobs has been growing.
Things to do. Close to town, Chokeelagee Creek and Bear Creek are rivers a short drive away, and Morgan Farm, a museum, is also a short drive. A longer drive brings you to Andersonville National Historic Site, a protected area that draws visitors from across the country. Lake Blackshear, a reservoir, is another longer drive from town.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 7,583 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Americus weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- Lee County SchoolsSchool district836FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
- Oxford Construction CompanyResurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway250
- Woodgrain MillworkDoor frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing249
- Georgia Electric AssociatesElectrical contractors160
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores160
- Lee County Health and Rehabilitation158
- Express Disposal and RecyclingGarbage hauling, local155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,909 people in all across the county; Smithville has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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 moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold 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 Smithville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Lee County and the Albany, GA metro.
Smithville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smithville$149,781
- 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 Smithville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smithville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.