White, Georgia.
Typical home $251,574 (+5.6% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+180%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,343 +6%
- $238,231$251,574 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,545 +48%
- $170,029$251,574 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.
- White$1,320
- 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 White, GA rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White, Bartow County, Georgia
White is a city of 661 people in Bartow County. Unemployment in Bartow County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bartow 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White is a very small city in Bartow County, Georgia, with a young population for the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued well below what is typical for the county's incomes, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many small towns. Winters are cool and mostly mild, summers are hot, and January is the coldest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Across Bartow County, some of the largest workplaces are Bartow County Schools, Toyo Tire North America and Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Red Top Mountain State Park, a protected area, and Lake Arrowhead are both a short drive away for time near the water. The Tellus Science Museum is also a short drive away, and the Etowah Indian Mounds, an archaeological site, make a longer outing.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Bartow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bartow County had 47,654 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 65°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cartersville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bartow County
- Bartow County SchoolsSchool district1,956FTE
- Toyo Tire North AmericaTires manufacturing1,775
- Hanwha Qcells GeorgiaSolar cells manufacturing1,339
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials1,240
- Piedmont Cartersville Medical CenterGeneral hospital662FTE
- NOTS LogisticsGeneral warehousing and storage550
- Cartersville City SchoolsSchool district542FTE
- Shaw IndustriesCarpets and rugs made from textile materials446
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 142 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,599 people in all across the county; White has one of its own. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White’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 Bartow County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
White home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White$251,574
- 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.
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 White address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.