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Place dossier plate
SheetGA-DULUTH-GA · Duluth, GA 31,958 pop · income 75th 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 Duluth
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Duluth on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
LaGrange · lowest
41,491
LaGrange · lowest
41,491 median HH income
32.4% of the leader · rank #1
Dorr · near
95,575
Dorr · near
95,575 median HH income
74.7% of the leader · rank #2
Robinson · near
95,579
Robinson · near
95,579 median HH income
74.7% of the leader · rank #3
Duluth · this city
95,580
Duluth · this city
95,580 median HH income
74.7% of the leader · rank #4
Castle Hills · near
95,583
Castle Hills · near
95,583 median HH income
74.7% of the leader · rank #5
Tanaina · near
95,587
Tanaina · near
95,587 median HH income
74.7% of the leader · rank #6
Beverly Hills · highest
127,979
Beverly Hills · highest
127,979 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 Duluth 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: 31,958.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Duluth - the verdict
Duluth ranks in the 75th percentile for household income and the 50th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
75th
percentile, household income
74th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
50th
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: Duluth, GA
Duluth is a small city in Georgia, home to 31,958 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Duluth report a median income of $95,580 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.8%. Duluth's housing stock carries a median value of $366,000, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. Educational attainment runs 53.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 191 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 89% from five years earlier. Duluth reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1362.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below 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. 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). 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 Duluth'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 reported crime to housing and income to population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Duluth, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
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 does the journey to work look like in Duluth?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.9%. 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. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Duluth?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1362.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 40% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Duluth?
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 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Duluth?
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 LaGrange (31,479 residents, $41,491 income); Martinez (33,019 residents, $85,617 income); Lawrenceville (30,626 residents, $58,606 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Beverly Hills, CA (31,955 residents); Seaside, CA (31,964 residents); Juneau, AK (31,969 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 Duluth growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,583 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 191 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
32,232
2025 estimate
33,815
Period change
+4.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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. 53.1% 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.
Poverty estimate
4.8%
Bachelor's degree+
53.1%
Matched public schools
20
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 4.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
B-
City profile score · Duluth, GA
67/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A
53.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$95,580
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.8%
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 C-
169 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Duluth profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 53.1%
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $95,580
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.8%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 54/100 (C-) · 169 /100k
Where Duluth sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Duluth'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 - Duluth highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Duluth, GA (this city): home $366,000, crime 1,363/100k
Beverly Hills, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 4,951/100k
Seaside, CA : home $692,600, crime 1,346/100k
Juneau, AK : home $432,500, crime 2,607/100k
Opelika, AL : home $213,700, crime 3,185/100k
Pullman, WA : home $401,700, crime 952/100k
LaGrange, GA : home $175,600, crime 5,111/100k
Lawrenceville, GA : home $335,100, crime 2,497/100k
Chamblee, GA : home $407,900, crime 4,179/100k
Kennesaw, GA : home $291,300, crime 1,099/100k
How does Duluth compare to other US cities?
Duluth measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income75% higher than other cities
Home value74% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety50% 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, Duluth ranks #62 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 Duluth 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 Duluth near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Duluth ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Duluth only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#65 of 610
89th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#51 of 577
91st percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#505 of 637
21st percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#36 of 638
94th 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
75th percentile nationally for median household income · 50th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Duluth's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Duluth'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 Duluth's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$366,00026th percentilemore affordable than 26% 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
Duluth's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,161 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,816 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.8×, Duluth sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,161 of 15,516 and #1,816 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$95,580Duluth, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Duluth, 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 Duluth, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)53.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
31,958
Median Income
$95,580
Median Home Value
$366,000
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
4.8%
Labor force participation
69.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
53.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1362.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
169.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1193.4
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
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Duluth's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
32,232 residents
2021
32,241 residents
2022
32,539 residents
2023
32,999 residents
2024
33,641 residents
2025
33,815 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
191
housing units authorized
Single-Family
191
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
101
32
69
$31.9M
2020
79
52
27
$25.3M
2021
117
55
62
$37.0M
2022
252
252
0
$73.8M
2023
245
245
0
$81.5M
2024
191
191
0
$85.1M
Permit volume increased 89% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.9%
Carpool
12.8%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
17.6%
Other
1.7%
Based on 17,376 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 Duluth. 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 Duluth 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 Duluth sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Duluth 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.