White Plains, Georgia.
Typical home $605,182 (+7.3% in a year). Milledgeville, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,901 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $41,319 +7%
- $563,863$605,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,692 +28%
- $474,490$605,182 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 Plains$3,176
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in White Plains, GA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White Plains, Greene County, Georgia
White Plains is a city of 239 people in Greene County. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greene County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Plains is a very small city in Greene County, Georgia, with a population far smaller than most towns people think of when they picture a city. Homes here are valued well above what the county's median household income would suggest, so buying can stretch a budget. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and highs a little above freezing, while summers run hot and rainfall is steady through the year.
Work. Across Greene County, the largest workplaces include Greene County Schools, Nibco and Publix Super Markets. Residents of White Plains work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and very few work from home. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment across it has eased slightly.
Things to do. A. H. Stephens State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and the most convenient place to get outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Oconee, a large reservoir, and to Rock Eagle Effigy Mound, an archaeological site. The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum is also a longer drive away for a museum visit.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Greene County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 7,333 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Siloam 3N weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Greene County SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- NibcoPipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing229
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores201
- St Marys Good SamaritanCritical access hospital170FTE
- Novelis - GBOAluminum ingot, secondary smelting of aluminum and manufacturing132
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores93
- Plains Logging CompanyCutting and transporting timber80
- The Glen at Lake Oconee VillageAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,414 people in all across the county; White Plains 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White Plains’ 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 Greene County and the Milledgeville, GA metro.
White Plains home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Plains$605,182
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- White Plains6
Zip codes with a White Plains address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Plains — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.