Warthen, Georgia.
Typical home $180,299 (+10.8% in a year). Milledgeville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$504 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,643 +11%
- $162,656$180,299 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,752 +13%
- $159,547$180,299 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.
- Warthen$946
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Warthen, GA rose 10.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Warthen, Washington County, Georgia
Warthen, in Washington County, had 132 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Warthen is a very small community in Washington County, Georgia, where almost every home is lived in by its owners. Typical home values sit below what many homeowners elsewhere would expect, and household incomes across the county run on the modest side. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers get hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Washington County Schools, Oconee Fall Line Technical College and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. The Little Ogeechee River and Hamburg State Park are both a short drive away, the first a river to walk beside and the second a museum-style stop with some local history. A longer drive brings you to Lake Sinclair, a lake for time on the water, and to the Old Governor's Mansion, a museum in the old state capital.
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What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 6,468 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandersville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington County SchoolsSchool district382FTE
- Cox EnterprisesAutomobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers322
- Oconee Fall Line Technical CollegeTwo-year college297
- Howard Sheppard - SandersvilleMotor freight carrier, general, local289
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters250
- Helton Electrical ServicesElectrical contractors227
- Washington CO REG MED CTRGeneral hospital197FTE
- B-H Transfer CompanyGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,682 people in all across the county; Warthen has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Warthen’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 Washington County and the Milledgeville, GA metro.
Warthen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Warthen$180,299
- 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 Warthen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Warthen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Warthen
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30820 | Mitchell | 1,104 | — | $176,578 |
| 31094 | Warthen | 817 | — | $169,556 |