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Place dossier plate
SheetGA-AMERICUS-GA · Americus, GA 15,910 pop · income 7th pct · 8 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 Americus
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Americus on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brunswick · lowest
34,021
Brunswick · lowest
34,021 median HH income
25.1% of the leader · rank #1
Colony · near
39,516
Colony · near
39,516 median HH income
29.2% of the leader · rank #2
McCloud · near
39,519
McCloud · near
39,519 median HH income
29.2% of the leader · rank #3
Ashley · near
39,519
Ashley · near
39,519 median HH income
29.2% of the leader · rank #4
Massieville · near
39,519
Massieville · near
39,519 median HH income
29.2% of the leader · rank #5
Americus · this city
39,527
Americus · this city
39,527 median HH income
29.2% of the leader · rank #6
Frederick · highest
135,316
Frederick · highest
135,316 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 Americus 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: 15,910.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Americus - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Americus lands in the 7th percentile for household income and the 3rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
7th
percentile, household income
15th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
3rd
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: Americus, GA
15,910 people live in Americus, Georgia - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Americus households earn a median of $39,527 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 24.3%. Home values in Americus run a median of $113,500, and the median resident age is 29.0 years. 21.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 15 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 650% from five years earlier. Americus's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 5585.2 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Americus's yearly average temperature at 64.2°F with 53.4 inches of precipitation per year and 0.2 inches of snowfall.
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,203 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Georgia's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Workers in Americus report an average commute of 16.7 minutes, with 69.4% driving alone and 10.8% working from home. 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 Americus'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 climate and hazard context to reported crime to housing and income to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Americus, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Americus 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 -575 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 15 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 64.2°F, with 53.4 inches of precipitation and 0.2 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Americus?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Dublin (16,023 residents, $40,417 income); St. Simons (16,026 residents, $105,944 income); Lithia Springs (16,138 residents, $54,982 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Red Oak, TX (15,909 residents); Seymour, TN (15,914 residents); Indianola, IA (15,918 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Americus?
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 5585.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 145% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3931.5
Violent rate
1653.7
Total reported rate
5585.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Americus?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 24.3%, 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
$39,527
Home value
$113,500
Value / income
2.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Americus?
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 69.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.7 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
10.8%
Drive alone
69.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,049 workers age 16+.
The NCES join finds 6 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
6
Bachelor's degree+
21.5%
Poverty estimate
24.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 24.3% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Americus, GA
20/100
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.
Poverty rate F
24.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$39,527
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
1,654 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Americus 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%
Poverty rate: 7/100 (F) · 24.3%
Household income: 6/100 (F) · $39,527
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,654 /100k
Where Americus sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Americus'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 - Americus highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Americus, GA (this city): home $113,500, crime 5,585/100k
Red Oak, TX : home $318,200, crime 2,276/100k
Indianola, IA : home $228,100, crime 1,745/100k
Chubbuck, ID : home $313,700, crime 2,952/100k
Frederick, CO : home $529,800, crime 703/100k
Monroe, GA : home $222,000, crime 1,952/100k
Grovetown, GA : home $226,000, crime 253/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Americus compare to other US cities?
Here's how Americus stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income7% higher than other cities
Home value15% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety3% 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, Americus ranks #159 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 Americus 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 Americus near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Americus ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Americus only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#479 of 610
21st percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#405 of 577
30th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#127 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
7th percentile nationally for median household income · 3rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Americus's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Americus'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 Americus's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$113,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 85% 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
Americus's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,963 of 15,516
More affordable than 62% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#724 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Americus sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,963 of 15,516 and #724 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$39,527Americus, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Americus, 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 Americus, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)24.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,910
Median Income
$39,527
Median Home Value
$113,500
Median Age
29.0
Poverty Rate
24.3%
Labor force participation
58.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
5585.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1653.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3931.5
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
64.2°F
Annual Precipitation
53.4"
Annual Snowfall
0.2"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Americus's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,192 residents
2021
15,830 residents
2022
15,640 residents
2023
15,751 residents
2024
15,830 residents
2025
15,617 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
15
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
15
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2
2
0
$0.5M
2020
2
2
0
$0.5M
2021
2
2
0
$0.5M
2022
81
1
80
$7.6M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
15
0
15
$1.4M
Permit volume increased 650% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.7 minutes
Drive Alone
69.4%
Carpool
12.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.0%
Work from Home
10.8%
Other
2.8%
Based on 7,049 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 Americus. 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 Americus 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 Americus sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Americus 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.