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Place dossier plate
SheetGA-CAMILLA-GA · Camilla, GA 5,158 pop · income 2nd pct · 7 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 Camilla
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Camilla on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Paintsville · lowest
26,713
Paintsville · lowest
26,713 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #1
Century · near
26,716
Century · near
26,716 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #2
Naper · near
26,719
Naper · near
26,719 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #3
Camilla · this city
26,720
Camilla · this city
26,720 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #4
Kingsland · near
26,731
Kingsland · near
26,731 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #5
Calistoga · highest
84,892
Calistoga · highest
84,892 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 Camilla 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: 5,158.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Camilla - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Camilla lands in the 2nd percentile for household income and the 40th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
2nd
percentile, household income
3rd
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
40th
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: Camilla, GA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 5,158 residents in Camilla, a small town within Georgia. Median household income here is $26,720 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 42.6%. Camilla's housing stock carries a median value of $74,400, and the median resident age is 38.7 years. About 8.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 40.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 0 residential units authorized here in 2024 (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier. Camilla reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1678.8 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). NOAA puts Camilla's yearly average temperature at 66.0°F with 51.6 inches of precipitation per year.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Georgia's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Workers in Camilla report an average commute of 27.3 minutes, with 77.6% driving alone and 1.5% 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 Camilla'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 climate and hazard context to work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime to schools and households to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Camilla, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Camilla 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 -183 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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 Camilla?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Rockmart (5,142 residents, $53,854 income); Glennville (5,199 residents, $48,681 income); Social Circle (5,113 residents, $82,188 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bangor, PA (5,158 residents); Smithville, TN (5,158 residents); Calistoga, CA (5,159 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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.0°F, with 51.6 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Camilla?
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 77.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.3 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
1.5%
Drive alone
77.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,538 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Camilla?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 42.6%, 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
$26,720
Home value
$74,400
Value / income
2.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Camilla?
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 1678.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 26% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1501.1
Violent rate
177.8
Total reported rate
1678.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 8.6% 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
3
Bachelor's degree+
8.6%
Poverty estimate
42.6%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 42.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Camilla, 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.
Violent crime C-
178 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$26,720
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
42.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Camilla profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 51/100 (C-) · 178 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 3/100 (F) · 8.6%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $26,720
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 42.6%
Where Camilla sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Camilla'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 - Camilla highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Camilla, GA (this city): home $74,400, crime 1,679/100k
Bangor, PA : home $167,100, crime 1,135/100k
Smithville, TN : home $153,500, crime 1,650/100k
Calistoga, CA : home $702,700, crime 1,359/100k
Cherokee, IA : home $119,400, crime 543/100k
Williamston, NC : home $108,900, crime 7,569/100k
Rockmart, GA : home $186,600, crime 2,484/100k
Hiram, GA : home $236,700, crime 5,171/100k
Blakely, GA : home $140,400, crime 2,878/100k
Baxley, GA : home $75,300, crime 3,587/100k
How does Camilla compare to other US cities?
Camilla measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income2% higher than other cities
Home value3% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety40% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Georgia alone, Camilla ranks #80 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Camilla 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 Camilla near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Camilla ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Camilla only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#587 of 610
4th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#525 of 577
9th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#20 of 637
97th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#516 of 638
19th 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
2nd percentile nationally for median household income · 40th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Camilla's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Camilla'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 Camilla's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$74,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 97% 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
Camilla's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,499 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,785 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Camilla sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,499 of 15,516 and #4,785 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
$26,720Camilla, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Camilla, 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 Camilla, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)42.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)40.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,158
Median Income
$26,720
Median Home Value
$74,400
Median Age
38.7
Poverty Rate
42.6%
Labor force participation
40.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1678.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
177.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1501.1
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
51.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Camilla's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,171 residents
2021
5,137 residents
2022
5,188 residents
2023
5,079 residents
2024
5,037 residents
2025
4,988 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.3M
2020
1
1
0
$0.1M
2021
1
1
0
$0.1M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
3
3
0
$0.5M
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.3 minutes
Drive Alone
77.6%
Carpool
16.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
1.5%
Other
4.6%
Based on 1,538 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 Camilla. 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 Camilla 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 Camilla sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Camilla 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.