Talmo, Georgia.
Typical home $345,541 (+7.2% in a year). Jefferson, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,067 (+143%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $23,234 +7%
- $322,307$345,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,982 +37%
- $251,559$345,541 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.
- Talmo$1,814
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Talmo, GA rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Talmo, Jackson County, Georgia
Talmo is a town of 257 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Talmo is a very small town in Jackson County, Georgia, with far fewer people than most towns on this site. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, and household incomes across Jackson County run high. Winters are mild and cool, summers are hot, and the rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include SK Battery, Amazon and Jackson County Schools. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Road Atlanta, a race track, is a short drive away, as are Gresham Motorsports Park and Lanier National Speedway, which are also race tracks. For a quieter outing, Thompson Mills Forest, a botanical garden, is also a short drive. Lake Lanier, a large reservoir, is a longer drive.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 43,619 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gainesville Gilmer Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- SK BatteryLithium batteries manufacturing3,127
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,643
- Jackson County SchoolsSchool district1,490FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,445
- H.G. Georgia MerchantsGeneral warehousing and storage1,152
- 85 BraseltonFamily clothing stores908
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing871
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage729
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 107 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,747 people in all across the county; Talmo has none 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Talmo’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 Jackson County and the Jefferson, GA metro.
Talmo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Talmo$345,541
- 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 Talmo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Talmo — 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.