Sylvester, Georgia.
Typical home $171,261 (+10.2% in a year). Albany, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$475 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,877 +10%
- $155,384$171,261 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,506 +28%
- $133,755$171,261 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.
- Sylvester$899
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Sylvester, GA rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia
Sylvester is a city of 5,644 people in Worth County. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sylvester is a small city in Worth County, in southern Georgia. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of residents rent, and typical home values are modest. Poverty is more common here than in most places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with chilly mornings and cool afternoons in January, while summers are long and hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehouses, and a range of other services also employing many. Across Worth County, some of the largest workplaces are Worth County Schools, Walmart and Phoebe Worth Medical Center. The typical commute is a moderate one, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Warrior Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Kinchafoonee Creek, another river, and Lake Blackshear, a reservoir, are a longer drive away. The Flint RiverQuarium, an aquarium, is also a longer drive away, and makes a good outing for visiting family.
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- 2,139households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents 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, 17 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; Sylvester has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sylvester’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.
Sylvester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sylvester$171,261
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Sylvester listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Sylvester29.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sylvester27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sylvester7
Zip codes with a Sylvester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sylvester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.