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Place dossier plate
SheetGA-BYRON-GA · Byron, GA 5,839 pop · income 68th 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 Byron
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Byron on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Waynesboro · lowest
36,156
Waynesboro · lowest
36,156 median HH income
17.6% of the leader · rank #1
Anderson · near
86,250
Anderson · near
86,250 median HH income
41.9% of the leader · rank #2
Galena · near
86,250
Galena · near
86,250 median HH income
41.9% of the leader · rank #3
Unalakleet · near
86,250
Unalakleet · near
86,250 median HH income
41.9% of the leader · rank #4
Byron · this city
86,265
Byron · this city
86,265 median HH income
41.9% of the leader · rank #5
Quail Ridge · near
86,279
Quail Ridge · near
86,279 median HH income
41.9% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Bluff · highest
205,735
Lake Bluff · highest
205,735 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 Byron 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: 5,839.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Byron - the verdict
Nationally, Byron sits in the 68th percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
51st
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: Byron, GA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 5,839 residents in Byron, a small town within Georgia. Byron households earn a median of $86,265 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.8%. Typical homes in Byron are valued around $230,100, and the median resident age is 32.8 years. Educational attainment runs 33.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 96 residential building permits were authorized in Byron (Building Boom), up 256% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Byron reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1226.7 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. 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). The average commute for Byron workers runs 16.8 minutes, with 68.8% driving alone and 22.5% 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 Byron'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 schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Byron, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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 Byron?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1226.7 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.
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 4 public schools within the city match. 33.8% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Byron?
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 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Byron?
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 McRae-Helena (5,959 residents, $51,296 income); Waynesboro (5,700 residents, $36,156 income); Sandersville (5,673 residents, $44,724 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Richmond, MI (5,839 residents); Lake Bluff, IL (5,834 residents); Peoria Heights, IL (5,834 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.
Population change
Is Byron growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +858 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +15.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 96 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.
2020 estimate
5,709
2025 estimate
6,567
Period change
+15.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.8 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
68.8%
Work from home
22.5%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,850 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 11.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
C
City profile score · Byron, GA
55/100
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.
Household income B-
$86,265
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Violent crime C
159 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
11.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Byron profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 66/100 (B-) · $86,265
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.8%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 56/100 (C) · 159 /100k
Poverty rate: 33/100 (F) · 11.8%
Where Byron sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Byron'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 - Byron highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Byron, GA (this city): home $230,100, crime 1,227/100k
Richmond, MI : home $228,000, crime 687/100k
Lake Bluff, IL : home $739,400, crime 871/100k
Peoria Heights, IL : home $118,000, crime 3,474/100k
Polk City, IA : home $385,000, crime 320/100k
Eaton, CO : home $448,800, crime 858/100k
McRae-Helena, GA : home $111,800, crime 1,485/100k
Temple, GA : home $210,800, crime 1,039/100k
Eastman, GA : home $145,300, crime 5,670/100k
How does Byron compare to other US cities?
Byron measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value51% 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, Byron ranks #55 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 Byron 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 Byron near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Byron ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Byron only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#84 of 610
86th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#169 of 577
71st percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#316 of 637
49th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#112 of 638
82nd 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
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Byron's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Byron'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 Byron's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$230,10049th percentilemore affordable than 49% 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
Byron's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,860 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,280 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Byron sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,860 of 15,516 and #4,280 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$86,265Byron, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Byron, 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 Byron, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,839
Median Income
$86,265
Median Home Value
$230,100
Median Age
32.8
Poverty Rate
11.8%
Labor force participation
65.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1226.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
159.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1067.4
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Byron's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,709 residents
2021
5,814 residents
2022
5,959 residents
2023
6,149 residents
2024
6,365 residents
2025
6,567 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
96
housing units authorized
Single-Family
96
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
16.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
27
27
0
$2.5M
2020
34
34
0
$3.2M
2021
80
80
0
$13.6M
2022
88
88
0
$14.1M
2023
95
95
0
$16.5M
2024
96
96
0
$16.4M
Permit volume increased 256% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.8 minutes
Drive Alone
68.8%
Carpool
5.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
22.5%
Other
3.3%
Based on 2,850 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 Byron. 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 Byron 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 Byron sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Byron 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.