Sparta, Georgia.
Typical home $220,402 (+1.0% in a year). Milledgeville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$666 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,119 +1%
- $218,283$220,402 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,216 +22%
- $181,187$220,402 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.
- Sparta$1,157
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Sparta, GA rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia
Sparta is a city of 1,357 people in Hancock County. Unemployment in Hancock County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sparta is a small city and the seat of Hancock County, Georgia, in a rural part of the state. Household incomes across the county run below the typical American level, and few adults in town hold a four-year degree. Homes are priced modestly for a place in Georgia. Winters are mild, with cold spells in January, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Jobs are fewer than they were a year ago across Hancock County, and unemployment has stayed about where it was a year earlier. The biggest workplaces across the county include Hancock County Schools, the Sparta facility of Verescence North America, which makes glass packaging containers, and Selectis Health, a skilled nursing provider. Nobody in town works from home; people go to a workplace.
Things to do. Rock Eagle Effigy Mound is an archaeological site, a longer drive away. Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee are both within a longer drive, and are the nearest places for boating and time on the water. A. H. Stephens State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area with trails and woods.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Siloam 3N weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock County
- Hancock County SchoolsSchool district208FTE
- Verescence North America, Inc. - Sparta FacilityGlass packaging containers manufacturing160
- Selectis HealthSkilled nursing facilities47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 207 people in all across the county; Sparta has two 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sparta’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 Hancock County and the Milledgeville, GA metro.
Sparta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sparta$220,402
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sparta listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Sparta27.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sparta51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sparta5
Zip codes with a Sparta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sparta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.