Sumner, Georgia.
Typical home $208,864 (+9.1% in a year). Albany, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$367 (+50%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $17,435 +9%
- $191,429$208,864 since Sep 2025
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.
- Sumner$1,096
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sumner, GA rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sumner, Worth County, Georgia
Sumner is a town of 445 people in Worth County. Half its households earn more than $55,250 a year and half less, against $58,694 across Worth County. Unemployment in Worth County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Worth 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sumner is a very small town in Worth County, Georgia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and homes are valued at a modest level compared with much of the country. Very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and chilly days and nights, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month and very warm afternoons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities also common. Across Worth County, some of the largest workplaces are Worth County Schools, Walmart and Phoebe Worth Medical Center. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there has held steady compared with a year earlier. A typical commute takes about the length of a short drive across the county, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Warrior Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Blackshear is a reservoir for time on the water, and Reed Bingham State Park is a protected area. The Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Worth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Worth County had 3,101 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashburn Ene weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Worth County
- Worth County SchoolsSchool district442FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters185
- Phoebe Worth Medical CenterCritical access hospital106FTE
- Birdsong Peanuts SylvesterPeanut shelling70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 255 people in all across the county; Sumner 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sumner’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 Worth County and the Albany, GA metro.
Sumner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sumner$208,864
- 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 Sumner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sumner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.