Sylvania, Georgia.
Typical home $148,859 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,303 +7%
- $138,557$148,859 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,101 +32%
- $112,759$148,859 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.
- Sylvania$781
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Sylvania, GA rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sylvania, Screven County, Georgia
Sylvania is a city of 2,634 people in Screven County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Screven County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Screven 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sylvania is a small Georgia city and the seat of Screven County. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes in the county are on the lower side, and more households live below the poverty line than is true across much of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are mild, with a January that is cool but seldom harsh, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Sylvania are Screven County Schools, Food Lion and Screven County Hospital. Unemployment across Screven County is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Magnolia Springs State Park and Lake Warren State Park are protected areas for time outdoors, each a longer drive away. Brier Creek, also a longer drive away, is a river for those who like to be near the water. Topper, an archaeological site, is a longer drive as well and suits anyone curious about the region's earlier history.
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- 955households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Screven County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Screven County had 2,946 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Ford 4SE weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sylvania
- Screven County SchoolsSchool district335FTE
- Food LionGrocery store65
- Screven County HospitalCritical access hospital62FTE
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores32
- SylvaniaMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 225 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sylvania’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Screven County.
Sylvania home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sylvania$148,859
- 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.
- Sylvania16
Zip codes with a Sylvania address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sylvania — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.