Thomaston, Georgia.
Typical home $179,729 (+3.5% in a year). Thomaston, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$610 (+183%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,146 +4%
- $173,583$179,729 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,723 +45%
- $124,005$179,729 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.
- Thomaston$943
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Thomaston, GA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia
Thomaston is a city of 9,816 people in Upson County. 35% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 65% are rented. Unemployment in Upson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thomaston is a small city and the seat of Upson County in west-central Georgia. The population skews a little older than the national picture, and far fewer households own their homes than across most of the country, so renting is common. Incomes sit below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are mild and cold snaps are short, with little or no snow, while summers are hot, and the rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. The largest workplaces in town include Thomaston-Upson County Schools, Upson Regional Medical Center and Walmart. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people travel to a job, usually a fairly short drive.
Things to do. Sprewell Bluff Park is a park a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the outdoor options. A longer drive brings you to F. D. Roosevelt State Park, a large protected area, and to the Little White House, a museum tied to the president who spent time in this part of Georgia. High Falls State Park is another protected area a longer drive off, a good choice for a day out.
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- 3,956households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Upson County had 7,242 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thomaston 4SE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thomaston
- Thomaston-Upson County SchoolsSchool district664FTE
- Upson Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital631FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Tidal Wave Auto Spa Wash SupportCar washes174
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores150
- Tidal Wave Auto SPAIron work, structural, contractors82
- Health ScholarshipsSkilled nursing facilities80
- Providence SNF OperatorSkilled nursing facilities61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,053 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 high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of ThomastonRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thomaston’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 Upson County and the Thomaston, GA metro.
Thomaston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thomaston$179,729
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Thomaston listings, and the typical home goes pending in 33 days — 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.
- Thomaston28.47%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Thomaston33
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thomaston136
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Thomaston28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Thomaston$208,819
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Thomaston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thomaston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.