Suches, Georgia.
Typical home $362,914 (+2.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,096 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,119 +2%
- $355,795$362,914 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,506 +18%
- $308,408$362,914 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.
- Suches$1,905
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Suches, GA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Suches, Union County, Georgia
The Census does not count Suches on its own, so the figures here are Union County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,176 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Union County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Suches sits in the hills of north Georgia, in Union County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population skews older. Winters are cold, though snow is light, and summers are warm. Rain falls throughout the year, more than in much of the country.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, building trades, retail and manufacturing employ many residents. Unemployment has come down a little over the past year, and the number of local jobs has held roughly steady. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers woodland for walking. Lake Winfield Scott, a reservoir a short drive away, and the Toccoa River, a river also a short drive off, give residents water to visit. Amicalola Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away, is a trip many people make.
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- 11,490households
- 55.9median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Union County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 7,856 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 3 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blairsville Experiment Station weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- Union Genral HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals701
- Union General HospitalGeneral hospital609FTE
- Union County SchoolsSchool district487FTE
- Davenport TransportationBulk mail truck transportation, contract, local335
- DT ExpressTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores250
- ANAPoultry hatcheries106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,248 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Union County, 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 Union County.
Suches home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Suches$362,914
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Suches listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Suches18.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Suches30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Suches address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Suches — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.