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SheetGA-ALBANY-GA · Albany, GA 67,939 pop · income 13th pct · 29 tracts
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 Albany
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Albany on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jennings · lowest
45,194
Jennings · lowest
45,194 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #1
Marked Tree · near
45,197
Marked Tree · near
45,197 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #2
Hillsboro · near
45,197
Hillsboro · near
45,197 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #3
Albany · this city
45,201
Albany · this city
45,201 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #4
Rich Hill · near
45,203
Rich Hill · near
45,203 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #5
Alpharetta · highest
146,581
Alpharetta · highest
146,581 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Albany 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: 67,939.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Albany - the verdict
Albany ranks in the 13th percentile for household income and the 24th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
17th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
24th
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: Albany, GA
Georgia's Albany is a small city, with 67,939 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Albany brings in $45,201 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 24.2%. Home values in Albany run a median of $118,700, and the median resident age is 35.1 years. 21.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 48.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 45 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 81% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2431.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Albany's yearly average temperature at 66.0°F with 52.5 inches of precipitation per year.
Living costs in Georgia run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Georgia scores 96.3 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Georgia run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Albany workers runs 18.3 minutes, with 77.3% driving alone and 8.2% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.5 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Albany'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 population change to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to reported crime to work and mobility to schools and households to climate and hazard context to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Albany, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Albany growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -2,206 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 45 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Albany?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Alpharetta (66,355 residents, $146,581 income); Marietta (61,773 residents, $70,086 income); Stonecrest (59,917 residents, $62,939 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Weston, FL (67,952 residents); Leander, TX (67,880 residents); Jackson, TN (68,098 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.
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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 29 Census tracts to this city.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Albany?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2431.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 7% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Albany?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.3 minutes.
Public transit
1.6%
Work from home
8.2%
Drive alone
77.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 25,141 workers age 16+.
The NCES join finds 22 public schools within the city match. 21.5% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
22
Bachelor's degree+
21.5%
Poverty estimate
24.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.0°F, with 52.5 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Georgia is 39.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
66.0°F
Annual precipitation
52.5 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
39.5
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Albany?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 24.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$45,201
Home value
$118,700
Value / income
2.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Low income · poverty 24.2% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Albany, GA
22/100
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.
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$45,201
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
24.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
824 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Albany profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.5%
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,201
Poverty rate: 7/100 (F) · 24.2%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 824 /100k
Where Albany sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Albany'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 - Albany highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Albany, GA (this city): home $118,700, crime 2,432/100k
Leander, TX : home $470,700, crime 1,058/100k
Jackson, TN : home $195,000, crime 4,111/100k
Union City, CA : home $1,058,200, crime 2,643/100k
Eagan, MN : home $380,800, crime 1,873/100k
Alpharetta, GA : home $605,700, crime 1,401/100k
Marietta, GA : home $401,100, crime 2,109/100k
Brookhaven, GA : home $660,300, crime 2,544/100k
Smyrna, GA : home $409,000, crime 1,540/100k
Valdosta, GA : home $165,300, crime 4,634/100k
How does Albany compare to other US cities?
Where Albany sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value17% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety24% 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, Albany ranks #101 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 Albany 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 Albany near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Albany ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Albany only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#409 of 610
33rd percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#396 of 577
31st percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#128 of 637
80th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#239 of 638
62nd 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 24th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Albany's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Albany'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 Albany's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$118,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 83% 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
Albany's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,651 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#53 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.6×, Albany sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,651 of 15,516 and #53 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$45,201Albany, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Albany, 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 Albany, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)24.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)48.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
67,939
Median Income
$45,201
Median Home Value
$118,700
Median Age
35.1
Poverty Rate
24.2%
Labor force participation
48.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2431.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
823.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1608.0
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.0°F
Annual Precipitation
52.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
22
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Albany's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
69,113 residents
2021
66,326 residents
2022
67,190 residents
2023
66,992 residents
2024
66,991 residents
2025
66,907 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
45
housing units authorized
Single-Family
25
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
238
18
220
$36.5M
2020
165
17
148
$25.0M
2021
25
25
0
$8.4M
2022
56
23
33
$11.1M
2023
37
22
15
$8.8M
2024
45
25
20
$10.4M
Permit volume decreased 81% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.3 minutes
Drive Alone
77.3%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
8.2%
Other
1.7%
Based on 25,141 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 Albany. 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 Albany 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 Albany sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Albany 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.