Talbotton, Georgia.
Typical home $132,078 (-0.6% in a year). Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$335 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $740 -1%
- $132,818$132,078 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,375 +9%
- $121,703$132,078 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.
- Talbotton$693
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Talbotton, GA fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Talbotton, Talbot County, Georgia
Talbotton is a city of 742 people in Talbot County. Unemployment in Talbot County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 13.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Talbot 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Talbotton is a very small city and the seat of Talbot County, the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county run on the modest side. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet enough that the land stays green.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and local shops also providing jobs. Across Talbot County, the largest workplaces are Talbot County Schools, along with the roofing contractors RL Bishop & Assoc and Clifford-Lee & Associates. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the county has seen job numbers grow over the past year while unemployment has eased.
Things to do. The Little White House, a museum, is a longer drive away and is the best known place nearby. F. D. Roosevelt State Park, a protected area, and Callaway Gardens, a botanical garden, are also a longer drive away and suit a day spent outdoors. The Columbus Museum, also a longer drive away, offers an indoor outing when the weather turns wet.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Talbot County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Talbot County had 984 jobs in 2025, 13.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Talbotton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Talbot County
- Talbot County SchoolsSchool district92FTE
- RL Bishop & AssocRoofing contractors53
- Clifford-Lee & AssociatesRoofing contractors28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 81 people in all across the county; Talbotton has one of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Talbotton’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 Talbot County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Talbotton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Talbotton$132,078
- 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 Talbotton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Talbotton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.