Social Circle, Georgia.
Typical home $362,437 (+0.3% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,071 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,008 +0%
- $361,429$362,437 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,585 +25%
- $288,852$362,437 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.
- Social Circle$1,902
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Social Circle, GA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Social Circle, Walton County, Georgia
Social Circle is a city of 4,974 people in Walton County. Half its households earn more than $88,591 a year and half less, against $84,945 across Walton County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Walton County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Walton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Social Circle is a small Georgia city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where household incomes run a little above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are mild, with cold nights but hardly any snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. People who live here work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the larger workplaces in town are Goodyear Social Circle, which retreads tires, Hood Container Social Circle, which makes packaging, and Standridge Color, which compounds plastics resins. The typical commute is long, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Hard Labor Creek State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir, which makes a quiet spot for time by the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and to Sanford Stadium, the well-known football venue.
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- 1,732households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Walton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walton County had 26,474 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Covington weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Social Circle
- Standridge ColorCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins342
- KLS USA GA Social Circle 1871 Willow Springs Church RDGeneral warehousing and storage168
- Goodyear Social CircleRetreading tires152
- Hood Container Social CirclePackaging solutions66
- Farm & Home SupplyBuilding materials supply dealers64
- Social Circle Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities55
- CertainTeedBuilding materials, plastics, manufacturing54
- SymriseFeed supplements, dog and cat, manufacturing41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 942 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Social Circle’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 Walton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Social Circle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Social Circle$362,437
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Social Circle listings — 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.
- Social Circle33.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Social Circle72
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Social Circle14
Zip codes with a Social Circle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Social Circle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.