Tybee Island, Georgia.
Typical home $614,951 (-2.7% in a year). Savannah, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,661 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,779 -3%
- $631,731$614,951 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,304 +19%
- $516,648$614,951 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.
- Tybee Island$3,228
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Tybee Island, GA fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tybee Island, Chatham County, Georgia
Tybee Island is a city of 3,114 people in Chatham County. Half its households earn more than $120,479 a year and half less, against $71,097 across Chatham County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Chatham County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chatham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tybee Island is a small coastal city where residents tend to be older than in most places, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and homes here are valued at a good deal more than is typical for most of the country. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. A good many adults hold a four-year degree, and more people work from home than in many towns. Across Chatham County, some of the largest workplaces are Savannah-Chatham County Schools, Memorial Health Univ MED Center and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Things to do. Right in or beside town are the Tybee Island Lighthouse and Museum and Fort Pulaski National Monument, a fort with a long history on the water. The Tybee Post Theater, also in town, is a place for films and performances. A short drive away, Tybee National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for wildlife and quiet walks.
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- 1,464households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Chatham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chatham County had 172,740 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Savannah International Airport weather station, 22 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chatham County
- Savannah-Chatham County SchoolsSchool district5,571FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,709
- Memorial Health Univ MED CenterGeneral hospital2,375FTE
- Savannah College of Art and DesignUniversity or college2,072
- Gateway TerminalsMarine terminal and longshoring1,800
- Candler HospitalGeneral hospital1,431FTE
- St. Josephs HospitalGeneral hospital1,227FTE
- South University-Savannah OnlineUniversity or college967
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 364 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 45,289 people in all across the county; Tybee Island has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tybee Island’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Chatham County and the Savannah, GA metro.
Tybee Island home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tybee Island$614,951
- 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 Tybee Island listings — 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.
- Tybee Island18.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tybee Island139
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tybee Island21
Zip codes with a Tybee Island address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tybee Island — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.