Tate, Georgia.
Typical home $313,016 (+1.7% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$896 (+120%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,320 +2%
- $307,696$313,016 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,808 +26%
- $249,207$313,016 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.
- Tate$1,643
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Tate, GA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tate, Pickens County, Georgia
The Census does not count Tate on its own, so the figures here are Pickens County's. Half the county's households earn more than $78,930 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Pickens County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pickens County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tate is a small town in Pickens County in north Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachians. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and the people here are older on average than across most of the country. Winters are cool and snow is rare, summers are warm, and the area gets more rain than most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing and the building trades also employ people here. Professional and business services are another major source of jobs. Job numbers grew over the past year, and unemployment has eased a little.
Things to do. Lake Lanier is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Amicalola Falls State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive. The Long Swamp Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive from town.
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- 13,430households
- 46.7median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Pickens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickens County had 9,658 jobs in 2025, 4.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 67°. About 2 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jasper Nnw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pickens County
- Pickens County SchoolsSchool district623FTE
- Piedmont Mountainside HospitalGeneral hospital462FTE
- RoystonSheet metal work manufacturing323
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores146
- QSR, a Datwyler companyRubber goods, mechanical, manufacturing144
- Magnum ContractingGrading construction sites140
- Kroger Atlanta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,303 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pickens County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pickens County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Tate home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tate$313,016
- 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 Tate address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tate — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.