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SheetGA-FAYETTEVILLE-GA · Fayetteville, GA 19,364 pop · income 64th 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 Fayetteville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fayetteville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Forest Park · lowest
42,286
Forest Park · lowest
42,286 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #1
Wildwood Crest · near
82,143
Wildwood Crest · near
82,143 median HH income
74.4% of the leader · rank #2
Kingston · near
82,143
Kingston · near
82,143 median HH income
74.4% of the leader · rank #3
Rarity Bay · near
82,143
Rarity Bay · near
82,143 median HH income
74.4% of the leader · rank #4
Fayetteville · this city
82,144
Fayetteville · this city
82,144 median HH income
74.4% of the leader · rank #5
Federal Way · near
82,144
Federal Way · near
82,144 median HH income
74.4% of the leader · rank #6
North Decatur · highest
110,366
North Decatur · highest
110,366 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 Fayetteville 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: 19,364.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fayetteville - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Fayetteville places in the 64th percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
64th
percentile, household income
69th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
19th
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: Fayetteville, GA
Fayetteville is a small town in Georgia, home to 19,364 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Fayetteville report a median income of $82,144 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.1%. Home values in Fayetteville run a median of $331,700, and the median resident age is 43.8 years. 37.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 54 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 56% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2699.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, near 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Georgia run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Fayetteville report an average commute of 30.1 minutes, with 81.8% driving alone and 10.3% working from home. 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 Fayetteville'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to population change to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fayetteville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Fayetteville?
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 Forest Park (19,619 residents, $42,286 income); Kingsland (19,101 residents, $80,395 income); Winder (18,847 residents, $59,944 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sherrelwood, CO (19,368 residents); Twinsburg, OH (19,346 residents); Englewood, FL (19,385 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.
What does the education layer cover for Fayetteville?
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 14 public schools within the city match. 37.7% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fayetteville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2699.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% 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.
Is Fayetteville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,450 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 54 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Fayetteville?
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 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.0×
Home value
$331,700
Household income
$82,144
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Fayetteville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.1 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.
Drive alone
81.8%
Work from home
10.3%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 8,330 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 6.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
C+
City profile score · Fayetteville, GA
61/100
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 B
37.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$82,144
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.1%
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
157 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Fayetteville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.7%
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $82,144
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.1%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 57/100 (C) · 157 /100k
Where Fayetteville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fayetteville'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 - Fayetteville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Fayetteville, GA (this city): home $331,700, crime 2,699/100k
Twinsburg, OH : home $288,700, crime 610/100k
North Myrtle Beach, SC : home $371,900, crime 3,584/100k
West Mifflin, PA : home $131,400, crime 3,021/100k
Seminole, FL : home $312,700, crime 2,068/100k
Forest Park, GA : home $119,000, crime 3,437/100k
Kingsland, GA : home $226,800, crime 1,253/100k
Winder, GA : home $251,700, crime 1,372/100k
St. Marys, GA : home $259,300, crime 1,428/100k
Thomasville, GA : home $196,500, crime 3,944/100k
How does Fayetteville compare to other US cities?
Where Fayetteville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income64% higher than other cities
Home value69% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety19% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Georgia, Fayetteville ranks #114 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fayetteville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fayetteville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#104 of 610
83rd percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#73 of 577
87th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#461 of 637
27th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#91 of 638
85th 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
64th percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fayetteville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fayetteville'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 Fayetteville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$331,70031st percentilemore affordable than 31% 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
Fayetteville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,818 of 15,516
More affordable than 30% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,016 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.0×, Fayetteville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,818 of 15,516 and #2,016 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
$82,144Fayetteville, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fayetteville, 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 Fayetteville, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,364
Median Income
$82,144
Median Home Value
$331,700
Median Age
43.8
Poverty Rate
6.1%
Labor force participation
52.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2699.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
156.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2542.7
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
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fayetteville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,015 residents
2021
19,355 residents
2022
19,696 residents
2023
20,132 residents
2024
20,375 residents
2025
20,465 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
54
housing units authorized
Single-Family
54
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
124
122
2
$42.8M
2020
162
162
0
$44.7M
2021
165
165
0
$62.8M
2022
158
158
0
$53.9M
2023
87
87
0
$19.0M
2024
54
54
0
$16.9M
Permit volume decreased 56% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.1 minutes
Drive Alone
81.8%
Carpool
6.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
10.3%
Other
0.6%
Based on 8,330 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 Fayetteville. 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 Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fayetteville 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.