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SheetGA-ACWORTH-GA · Acworth, GA 22,370 pop · income 62nd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Acworth
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Acworth on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Griffin · lowest
44,021
Griffin · lowest
44,021 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #1
Salunga · near
80,694
Salunga · near
80,694 median HH income
74.2% of the leader · rank #2
Warren City · near
80,694
Warren City · near
80,694 median HH income
74.2% of the leader · rank #3
Acworth · this city
80,703
Acworth · this city
80,703 median HH income
74.2% of the leader · rank #4
Palmyra · near
80,709
Palmyra · near
80,709 median HH income
74.2% of the leader · rank #5
Matherville · near
80,714
Matherville · near
80,714 median HH income
74.2% of the leader · rank #6
Yorkville · highest
108,775
Yorkville · highest
108,775 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Acworth on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 22,370.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Acworth - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Acworth lands in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
66th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
55th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Acworth, GA
Acworth is a small city in Georgia, home to 22,370 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $80,703 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.8%. Home values in Acworth run a median of $309,800, and the median resident age is 36.6 years. Educational attainment runs 32.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 113 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 371% from five years earlier. Acworth reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1229.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Georgia run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Georgia at 96.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,203 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Georgia run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 39.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Acworth's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to work and mobility to population change to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Acworth, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Acworth?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1229.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 46% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
What does the journey to work look like in Acworth?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +486 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 113 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Which cities make useful reference points for Acworth?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Perry (22,243 residents, $81,648 income); Suwanee (21,811 residents, $105,878 income); Candler-McAfee (21,316 residents, $62,299 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are The Crossings, FL (22,359 residents); Bloomingdale, IL (22,388 residents); Yorkville, IL (22,350 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Acworth?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.8×
Home value
$309,800
Household income
$80,703
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 32.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
6.8%
Bachelor's degree+
32.9%
Matched public schools
13
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 6.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
B-
City profile score · Acworth, GA
65/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Violent crime A+
27 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$80,703
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living C
96.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate C-
6.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Acworth profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 90/100 (A+) · 27 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.9%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,703
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.8%
Where Acworth sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Acworth's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Acworth highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Acworth, GA (this city): home $309,800, crime 1,230/100k
Bloomingdale, IL : home $363,100, crime 1,459/100k
Yorkville, IL : home $314,200, crime 462/100k
Portsmouth, NH : home $640,600, crime 1,472/100k
Foley, AL : home $260,100, crime 1,722/100k
Cudahy, CA : home $505,300, crime 2,089/100k
Perry, GA : home $209,300, crime 1,896/100k
Suwanee, GA : home $439,700, crime 3,235/100k
Snellville, GA : home $293,400, crime 2,258/100k
Cartersville, GA : home $298,000, crime 1,950/100k
Griffin, GA : home $195,100, crime 4,287/100k
How does Acworth compare to other US cities?
Where Acworth sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value66% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety55% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Georgia, Acworth ranks #56 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Acworth against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Georgia only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Georgia-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Acworth near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Acworth ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Acworth only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#116 of 610
81st percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#86 of 577
85th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#439 of 637
31st percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#120 of 638
81st percentile in Georgia
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Georgia only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Acworth's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Acworth's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Acworth's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$309,80034th percentilemore affordable than 34% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Acworth's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,199 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,823 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.8×, Acworth sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,199 of 15,516 and #1,823 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$80,703Acworth, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Acworth, GA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Acworth, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
22,370
Median Income
$80,703
Median Home Value
$309,800
Median Age
36.6
Poverty Rate
6.8%
Labor force participation
69.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1229.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
26.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1202.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Acworth's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
22,439 residents
2021
22,364 residents
2022
22,380 residents
2023
22,511 residents
2024
22,643 residents
2025
22,925 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
113
housing units authorized
Single-Family
101
detached homes
Multifamily
12
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
24
24
0
$5.2M
2020
14
14
0
$3.6M
2021
31
31
0
$8.8M
2022
58
58
0
$18.4M
2023
58
58
0
$16.5M
2024
113
101
12
$30.2M
Permit volume increased 371% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.3%
Carpool
8.8%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
12.6%
Other
1.7%
Based on 12,133 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Georgia statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Georgia at $225 (electricity about $125 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Georgia statewide averages, not a meter reading for Acworth. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Georgia's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.3 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Acworth is $1,203/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Georgia statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.5 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Georgia statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Acworth sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Acworth compares to similar-size Georgia cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.