Williamson, Georgia.
Typical home $399,940 (+1.9% in a year). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,235 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,596 +2%
- $392,343$399,940 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,640 +30%
- $308,300$399,940 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.
- Williamson$2,099
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Williamson, GA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamson, Pike County, Georgia
Williamson is a city of 681 people in Pike County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamson is a very small city in Pike County, Georgia, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in and poverty is rare. Homes here are worth more than most of the country's, and winters are mild and cool while summers run hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work in professional and business services, manufacturing, schools and hospitals, and restaurants and hotels. Across Pike County, the largest workplaces include Pike County Schools, Ranews Companies and Johnson Battery Co. Commutes are long, and a good share of people work from home.
Things to do. Candler Field Museum is a museum in or beside town. A longer drive away are High Falls State Park, a protected area, and Indian Springs State Park, another protected area. Atlanta Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 3,541 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Experiment weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Pike County SchoolsSchool district455FTE
- Ranews CompaniesPainting metals and metal products for the trade285
- Southern Mills Inc. d.b.a TenCate Protective Fabrics - Weaving PlantBroadwoven fabrics weaving82
- Johnson Battery CoBatteries, automotive, dealers53
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs52
- McLeRoy EquipmentGrading construction sites45
- AramarkFood service contractors22
- Southside SteelBarge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 509 people in all across the county; Williamson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pike County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Williamson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamson$399,940
- 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 3 Williamson listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Williamson34.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamson35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williamson8
Zip codes with a Williamson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.