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Place dossier plate
SheetGA-COLLEGE-PARK-GA · College Park, GA 13,969 pop · income 17th 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 College Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest College Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Greenwood · lowest
34,659
Greenwood · lowest
34,659 median HH income
30.5% of the leader · rank #1
Leachville · near
48,500
Leachville · near
48,500 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #2
New Douglas · near
48,500
New Douglas · near
48,500 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #3
Cookeville · near
48,501
Cookeville · near
48,501 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #4
College Park · this city
48,505
College Park · this city
48,505 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #5
Sunbury · near
48,509
Sunbury · near
48,509 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #6
Braselton · highest
113,810
Braselton · highest
113,810 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 College Park 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: 13,969.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
College Park - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, College Park lands in the 17th percentile for household income and the 1st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
17th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
1st
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: College Park, GA
College Park is a small town in Georgia, home to 13,969 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. College Park households earn a median of $48,505 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 15.7%. Home values in College Park run a median of $314,500, and the median resident age is 31.3 years. Educational attainment runs 28.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 64 residential building permits were authorized in College Park (Building Boom), up 52% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. College Park's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 8731.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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). Natural-hazard exposure scores 39.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of College Park'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 schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For College Park, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, 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.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for College Park?
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 20 public schools within the city match. 28.2% 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 College Park?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in College Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 8731.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 283% higher 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for College Park?
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 Waycross (13,813 residents, $37,398 income); Braselton (14,139 residents, $113,810 income); Jefferson (14,249 residents, $96,761 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Roselle Park, NJ (13,965 residents); Teays Valley, WV (13,961 residents); McPherson, KS (13,956 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 College Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -11 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 64 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
13,898
2025 estimate
13,887
Period change
-0.1%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in College Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.4%. 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.
Drive alone
62.4%
Work from home
9.9%
Public transit
10.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,904 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · College Park, GA
28/100
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 C
28.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$48,505
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
1,387 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
College Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 55/100 (C) · 28.2%
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.7%
Household income: 18/100 (F) · $48,505
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,387 /100k
Where College Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
College Park'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 - College Park highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
College Park, GA (this city): home $314,500, crime 8,731/100k
Roselle Park, NJ : home $405,800, crime 746/100k
McPherson, KS : home $204,300, crime 1,530/100k
Waycross, GA : home $88,600, crime 6,061/100k
Braselton, GA : home $425,900, crime 788/100k
Jefferson, GA : home $346,800, crime 493/100k
Covington, GA : home $242,700, crime 4,465/100k
Bainbridge, GA : home $150,600, crime 3,631/100k
How does College Park compare to other US cities?
College Park measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income17% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety1% 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, College Park ranks #166 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 College Park 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 College Park near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, College Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares College Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#364 of 610
40th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#83 of 577
86th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#250 of 637
60th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#158 of 638
75th 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
17th percentile nationally for median household income · 1st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
College Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
College Park'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 College Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$314,50033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
College Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,432 of 15,516
More affordable than 7% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,043 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.5×, College Park sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,432 of 15,516 and #3,043 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$48,505College Park, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context College Park, 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 College Park, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,969
Median Income
$48,505
Median Home Value
$314,500
Median Age
31.3
Poverty Rate
15.7%
Labor force participation
57.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
8731.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1386.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
7344.1
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.
Schools
Total Schools
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
College Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,898 residents
2021
13,887 residents
2022
13,913 residents
2023
13,897 residents
2024
13,953 residents
2025
13,887 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
64
housing units authorized
Single-Family
64
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
42
42
0
$7.8M
2020
73
73
0
$7.2M
2021
33
33
0
$4.5M
2022
125
125
0
$19.3M
2023
91
91
0
$16.5M
2024
64
64
0
$14.9M
Permit volume increased 52% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
62.4%
Carpool
9.5%
Public Transit
10.3%
Walk
4.2%
Work from Home
9.9%
Other
3.7%
Based on 5,904 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 College Park. 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 College Park 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 College Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How College Park 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.