Thomasville, Georgia.
Typical home $232,278 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $1,661 (+5.8%). Thomasville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$677 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,080 +4%
- $224,199$232,278 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,128 +30%
- $178,150$232,278 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.
- Thomasville$1,219
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Thomasville, GA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Thomasville, GA rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Thomasville runs $42/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $141 in Mar 2026.
That is $1,619 a month against $1,661 rent: a $1,219 mortgage payment, plus $151 property tax and $249 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Thomasville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,619
- Renting$1,661
- Mortgage only$1,219
Property tax · $151/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Thomas County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $249/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia
Thomasville is a city of 18,881 people in Thomas County. Half its households earn more than $49,673 a year and half less, against $60,736 across Thomas County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Thomas County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Thomasville is a small city in south Georgia, with a population on the younger side of middle age. Incomes in town run below the county's, and renters and owners make up roughly equal parts of the town, so renting is as common as owning. Winters are mild and cold snaps are short, summers are hot, and snow is rare. Rain falls year-round and adds up to a good deal over the course of a year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in town are John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital, Thomasville City Schools and Thomas University. Getting to work is quick for most people, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Lapham–Patterson House, a museum, is in or beside town. Pebble Hill Plantation, also a museum, is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Miccosukee is a longer drive away.
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- 7,929households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Thomas County had 20,901 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cairo 1SW weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thomasville
- John D. Archbold Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,431FTE
- FPL FoodMeats, fresh or chilled, frozen, made from purchased carcasses565
- FPL Food - ThomasvilleProcessed meats manufacturing496
- Southern Regional Technical CollegeTwo-year college458
- Thomasville City SchoolsSchool district374FTE
- Thomas UniversityUniversity or college365
- Flowers Baking Company of Thomasville LLC, Thomasville BakeryCommercial bakeries340
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,237 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of ThomasvilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thomasville’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 Thomas County and the Thomasville, GA metro.
Thomasville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thomasville$232,278
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Thomasville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 42 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Thomasville19.83%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Thomasville42
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thomasville232
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Thomasville50
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Thomasville$274,126
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Thomasville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thomasville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Thomasville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31792 | Thomasville | 22,962 | $1,537 | $205,620 |
| 31757 | Thomasville | 11,340 | $1,875 | $279,476 |