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SheetGA-DRUID-HILLS-GA · Druid Hills, GA 8,278 pop · income 92nd 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 Druid Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Druid Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Joshua · lowest
60,466
Joshua · lowest
60,466 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Oswego · near
140,441
Lake Oswego · near
140,441 median HH income
78.5% of the leader · rank #2
Druid Hills · this city
140,466
Druid Hills · this city
140,466 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #3
Cooper Landing · near
140,500
Cooper Landing · near
140,500 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #4
Crossgate · near
140,500
Crossgate · near
140,500 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #5
Weston · near
140,501
Weston · near
140,501 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #6
Duvall · highest
178,821
Duvall · highest
178,821 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 Druid Hills 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: 8,278.
Nationally, Druid Hills sits in the 92nd percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
92nd
percentile, household income
94th
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: Druid Hills, GA
Druid Hills is a small town in Georgia, home to 8,278 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Druid Hills report a median income of $140,466 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.5%. Home values in Druid Hills run a median of $790,900, and the median resident age is 37.9 years. Educational attainment runs 84.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Georgia run below the national norm: the state registers 96.3 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Georgia, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 18.4 minutes, with 60.3% driving alone and 26.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Druid Hills'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 housing and income 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 Druid Hills, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Druid Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.5%, 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Druid Hills?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Centerville (8,323 residents, $81,233 income); Auburn (8,222 residents, $78,317 income); Austell (8,351 residents, $67,500 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Twin Lakes CDP (Adams County), CO (8,279 residents); St. Francis, MN (8,279 residents); Joshua, TX (8,279 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Druid Hills?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 60.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.4 minutes.
Top-decile income · poverty 4.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
B+
City profile score · Druid Hills, GA
79/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
84.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$140,466
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Druid Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 84.9%
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $140,466
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.5%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
How does Druid Hills compare to other US cities?
Here's how Druid Hills stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value94% 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 Druid Hills 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 Druid Hills near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Druid Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Druid Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#12 of 610
98th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#1 of 577
100th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#508 of 637
20th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#2 of 638
100th 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
92nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Druid Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$790,9006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
Druid Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,736 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,248 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.6×, Druid Hills sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,736 of 15,516 and #10,248 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$140,466Druid Hills, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Druid Hills, 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 Druid Hills, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)84.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,278
Median Income
$140,466
Median Home Value
$790,900
Median Age
37.9
Poverty Rate
4.5%
Labor force participation
59.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
84.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.4 minutes
Drive Alone
60.3%
Carpool
3.5%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
6.7%
Work from Home
26.5%
Other
1.8%
Based on 4,226 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 Druid Hills. 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 Druid Hills 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 Druid Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Druid Hills 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.