Stapleton, Georgia.
Typical home $146,026 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$348 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,423 +1%
- $144,603$146,026 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,908 +4%
- $140,118$146,026 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.
- Stapleton$766
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 84 years.
Typical home values in Stapleton, GA rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stapleton, Jefferson County, Georgia
Stapleton is a city of 402 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Jefferson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stapleton is a very small city in Jefferson County, Georgia, with a population that is among the smallest of any incorporated place in the state. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people do their jobs from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and the building trades also employing many. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Coastal Processing, Jefferson County Schools and Jefferson Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year. For time outdoors, Mistletoe State Park is a protected area and Little Ogeechee River is a river, both a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head to Hamburg State Park, a longer drive away, which is listed among the area's museums.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 4,890 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisville East weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Coastal ProcessingMeat products made from a combination of poultry and other meats407
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district367FTE
- Battle Lumber CoSawmills333
- Jefferson HospitalGeneral hospital122FTE
- Wadley SNFSkilled nursing facilities89
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores73
- Fulghum IndustriesChippers, stationary, manufacturing72
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,146 people in all across the county; Stapleton 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stapleton’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 Jefferson County.
Stapleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stapleton$146,026
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Stapleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stapleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.