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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cusseta-Chattahoochee County on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fitzgerald · lowest
36,515
Fitzgerald · lowest
36,515 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #1
Tamarac · near
59,216
Tamarac · near
59,216 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #2
Mount Pleasant · near
59,216
Mount Pleasant · near
59,216 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #3
Parma Heights · near
59,218
Parma Heights · near
59,218 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #4
Arp · near
59,219
Arp · near
59,219 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #5
Cusseta-Chatt… · this city
59,221
Cusseta-Chatt… · this city
59,221 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #6
Skidaway Isla… · highest
121,991
Skidaway Isla… · highest
121,991 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Cusseta-Chattahoochee County on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 9,181.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Cusseta-Chattahoochee County lands in the 34th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
34th
percentile, household income
9th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 9,181 residents in Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, a small town within Georgia. Households in Cusseta-Chattahoochee County report a median income of $59,221 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.2%. Typical homes in Cusseta-Chattahoochee County are valued around $99,800, and the median resident age is 23.9 years. About 27.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 16.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Georgia, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 9.1 minutes, with 51.8% driving alone and 7.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Cusseta-Chattahoochee County?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 51.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 9.1 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cusseta-Chattahoochee County?
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.
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Toccoa (9,173 residents, $48,706 income); Fitzgerald (8,962 residents, $36,515 income); Skidaway Island (8,907 residents, $121,991 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Richmond Heights, MO (9,179 residents); Waterford, CA (9,177 residents); Mound, MN (9,176 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Cusseta-Chattahoochee County?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Cusseta-Chattahoochee County?
PlainCities matches 5 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Population change
Is Cusseta-Chattahoochee County growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,003 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -10.6% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
9,468
2025 estimate
8,465
Period change
-10.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 11.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
D
City profile score · Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA
43/100
4 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-
27.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$59,221
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Cusseta-Chattahoochee County profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.6%
Poverty rate: 35/100 (F) · 11.2%
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $59,221
How does Cusseta-Chattahoochee County compare to other US cities?
Where Cusseta-Chattahoochee County sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income34% higher than other cities
Home value9% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Cusseta-Chattahoochee County 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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cusseta-Chattahoochee County ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cusseta-Chattahoochee County only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#268 of 610
56th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#447 of 577
23rd percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#335 of 637
47th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#167 of 638
74th 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
34th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Cusseta-Chattahoochee County's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$99,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 91% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income, a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability score.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#721 of 15,516
More affordable than 95% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#704 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.7×, Cusseta-Chattahoochee County sits in the affordable band:
national rank #721 of 15,516 and #704 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
$59,221Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, 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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)16.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,181
Median Income
$59,221
Median Home Value
$99,800
Median Age
23.9
Poverty Rate
11.2%
Labor force participation
16.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.6%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cusseta-Chattahoochee County's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,468 residents
2021
9,015 residents
2022
8,718 residents
2023
8,530 residents
2024
8,391 residents
2025
8,465 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
9.1 minutes
Drive Alone
51.8%
Carpool
11.2%
Public Transit
5.2%
Walk
24.0%
Work from Home
7.0%
Other
0.8%
Based on 5,966 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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County. 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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County 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 Cusseta-Chattahoochee County sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cusseta-Chattahoochee County 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, 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.