Located in Berrien County
31645Ray City is little more than a town center built around a highway intersection, surrounded by churches and farms. But this South Georgia community draws about half of its 1,000 residents from nearby Moody Air Force Base.
Ranch homes and bungalows line the compact grid of streets here. Small subdivisions just outside the city limits feature New Traditional homes, some of which have been built since 2020. To the west, single-family homes and manufactured houses sit among the pastures and pine barrens. Urban sprawl is not an issue here. Homes often come with at least 2 acres of land, and some lots sprawl to more than 20 acres. Manufactured home prices range from $120,000 to $200,000, while other houses cost between $105,000 and $295,000. Ray City’s CAP Index Crime Score is 1 out of 10, lower than the national average of 4.
All the county’s public schools are about 10 miles north in Nashville, the county seat. Students start with Berrien Primary School. Graded a B by Niche, Berrien Primary teaches kindergarten through second grade. Kids can then go to Berrien Elementary School for third through fifth grade before progressing to Berrien Middle School. Both schools receive B-plus grades. High schoolers can attend B-rated Berrien High School or apply to Berrien Academy, a charter school that gets a D-minus.
Ray City Park has a pair of baseball fields and a playground designed to accommodate children with autism. The park and the adjoining Ray City Senior Citizens Center host the annual Fourth of July celebration, when the community gathers for a watermelon-eating contest, live music and fireworks. There’s no local Little League organization, but First Baptist Church of Ray City partners with Upward Sports Ministries to organize youth basketball and soccer leagues. Possum Creek Off-Road Park opens two weekends per month, welcoming people who want to drive trucks, four-wheelers and even lawn mowers through 450 acres of mud and hills. South of Ray City, anglers fish for bass and bream from the pier at Banks Lake Wildlife Refuge. Canoers sometimes set out on the lake, where they paddle among Spanish moss-clad cypress trees while keeping an eye out for alligators.
Ray City’s few businesses are concentrated around an intersection in the middle of the city. Convenience stores, Dollar General and Family Dollar surround the intersection, while nearby Combo House serves hamburgers. Ray’s Millpond Cafe, open since 1963, is renowned for its catfish. City Clerk Denise Ray says the restaurant borders a swampy pond, hence the name. “They would catch them out of the pond,” Ray says. Outside of town, Little Duck Farms operates a market where it sells pecans, beef and homemade cookies. Surrounding towns have grocery stores, and the closest is Piggly Wiggly, 8 miles east in Lakeland. Valdosta is home to nationally known retailers such as Publix, Walmart and The Home Depot.
Several highways converge in Ray City, with Georgia state Route 125 leading 7 miles south from downtown to Moody Air Force Base and then about 10 miles farther to Valdosta. People can merge onto Interstate 75 roughly 8 miles west of the community; the highway runs north to south across Georgia, stretching more than 200 miles north to Atlanta. Locals typically get around by car, but they can schedule a shuttle ride through the Southern Georgia Regional Commission.
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Scarlett Holt
The American Dream
(229) 298-0268
112 Total Sales
4 in Ray City
$160K - $295K Price Range
Laura Stidham
Mercer Hughes Real Estate Group, Inc.
(229) 298-0143
36 Total Sales
3 in Ray City
$225K - $243K Price Range
Tony Barker
Canopy Realty Group
(229) 298-0916
60 Total Sales
4 in Ray City
$142K - $373K Price Range
Helen Campbell
Five Star Realty Group, LLC
(229) 415-7806
65 Total Sales
3 in Ray City
$105K - $420K Price Range
Walter Scott
Legacy Realtors
(229) 298-0134
72 Total Sales
5 in Ray City
$148K - $297K Price Range
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Ashley Lemmerman
Canopy Realty Group
(229) 740-6992
27 Total Sales
5 in Ray City
$200K - $290K Price Range
On average, homes in Ray City, GA sell after 20 days on the market compared to the national average of 70 days. The median sale price for homes in Ray City, GA over the last 12 months is $239,000, up 22% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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