Willacoochee, Georgia.
Typical home $141,028 (+2.3% in a year). Douglas, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$297 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,153 +2%
- $137,875$141,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,941 -7%
- $150,969$141,028 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.
- Willacoochee$740
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Willacoochee, GA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willacoochee, Atkinson County, Georgia
Willacoochee is a city of 1,240 people in Atkinson County. Unemployment in Atkinson County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Atkinson County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willacoochee is a small South Georgia city where most people know one another. Homes here cost well under what they do across much of the country, and household incomes across Atkinson County sit on the low side. Very few adults have a four-year degree, and the typical drive to work is a fairly long one.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Atkinson County, the largest workplaces include Atkinson County Schools, First String Space Inc, which builds manufactured classrooms, and Langboard MDF, which makes wood boards. Hardly anyone works from home, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. The Satilla River and the Willacoochee River are both a short drive away, and are the closest places to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and to General Coffee State Park. Winters are mild, with cool days, and summers are hot, which makes the cooler months the easiest time to spend a day outdoors.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Atkinson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atkinson County had 2,166 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Douglas weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atkinson County
- Atkinson County SchoolsSchool district254FTE
- First String Space Inc Railroad AveManufactured classrooms manufacturing223
- Langboard MDFReconstituted wood sheets and boards manufacturing143
- First String Space Inc Albany AveManufactured classrooms manufacturing135
- TLC MouldingMoldings, wood and covered wood, manufacturing110
- Specialized StructuresManufactured classrooms manufacturing100
- Cady Bag CompanyBags, plastics, made from purchased woven plastics77
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 788 people in all across the county; Willacoochee has one of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willacoochee’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 Atkinson County and the Douglas, GA metro.
Willacoochee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willacoochee$141,028
- 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 Willacoochee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willacoochee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.