Port Wentworth, GA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Port Wentworth, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Port Wentworth sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 173
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $324,250
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $175
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $275,000 and $358,990

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 173 closed sales in Port Wentworth over the last six months, with a median closing price of $324,250. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $275,000 and $358,990. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 94% of the Port Wentworth closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 173 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $157 and $206 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Port Wentworth, GA (September 2026)

The median home price in Port Wentworth is $324,250, measured across the 173 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $275,000 and $358,990.

Where Port Wentworth sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Port Wentworth over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $275,000 and $358,990. Among the 90 Georgia markets with a published band, Port Wentworth's middle-half spread ($275,000 to $358,990) ranks 7th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 3rd percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 38 days, across 76 Port Wentworth closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 39 days, across 90 Port Wentworth closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Port Wentworth angle

Port Wentworth closings run unusually uniform: of the 173 sales Resideline tracked over the last six months, half closed between $275,000 and $358,990, among the tightest spreads we track, with the median closed sale price at $324,250. When a market clusters this tightly the median stops being trivia and starts being a usable baseline: a typical Port Wentworth sale should price near it. The remaining variation sits mostly below the midpoint, since the lower stretch of the band runs further from the median than the upper stretch does. So the discriminating question for a specific property is usually whether anything justifies a discount, and matched closed sales answer that better than any citywide number. Start at $324,250 for a typical home; depart from it only with comps in hand.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it depends on a confirmed closing price reaching us, which happens for only a small share of Georgia homes, so the accuracy scoreboard is a national record rather than a Georgia one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Port Wentworth address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Port Wentworth, GA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1362328
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 173
Median sold price: $324,250
Median sold $/sqft: $175 (173 qualifying)
Property mix: 94% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Port Wentworth over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.