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Place dossier plate
SheetGA-FLOWERY-BRANCH-GA · Flowery Branch, GA 10,286 pop · income 69th 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 Flowery Branch
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Flowery Branch on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cordele · lowest
31,564
Cordele · lowest
31,564 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #1
South Woodsto… · near
88,182
South Woodsto… · near
88,182 median HH income
83.7% of the leader · rank #2
Flowery Branch · this city
88,185
Flowery Branch · this city
88,185 median HH income
83.7% of the leader · rank #3
Hudson · near
88,193
Hudson · near
88,193 median HH income
83.7% of the leader · rank #4
Fort Loramie · near
88,194
Fort Loramie · near
88,194 median HH income
83.7% of the leader · rank #5
Strausstown · near
88,194
Strausstown · near
88,194 median HH income
83.7% of the leader · rank #6
East Franklin · highest
105,363
East Franklin · highest
105,363 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 Flowery Branch 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: 10,286.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Flowery Branch - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Flowery Branch lands in the 69th percentile for household income and the 68th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
79th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
68th
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: Flowery Branch, GA
Flowery Branch is a small town in Georgia, home to 10,286 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Flowery Branch brings in $88,185 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.1%. Home values in Flowery Branch run a median of $422,900, and the median resident age is 37.6 years. 43.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 72.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 384 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 65% from five years earlier. Flowery Branch reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 911.1 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,203 per month statewide. 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 Flowery Branch'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 housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Flowery Branch, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Flowery Branch?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Fort Oglethorpe (10,332 residents, $50,902 income); Cedartown (10,211 residents, $32,064 income); Garden City (10,375 residents, $41,735 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Watervliet, NY (10,285 residents); Clay, AL (10,288 residents); Port Townsend, WA (10,290 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
How far does income reach against housing in Flowery Branch?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.1%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Flowery Branch?
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 68.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Flowery Branch?
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 43.0% 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.
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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Flowery Branch?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 911.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 60% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
838.6
Violent rate
72.6
Total reported rate
911.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Flowery Branch growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,598 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +37.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 384 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+37.8%
2025 estimate
13,110
2020 estimate
9,512
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
B-
City profile score · Flowery Branch, GA
68/100
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+
43.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B+
73 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B-
$88,185
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
5.1%
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.
Flowery Branch profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.0%
Violent crime: 78/100 (B+) · 73 /100k
Household income: 67/100 (B-) · $88,185
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.1%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Where Flowery Branch sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Flowery Branch'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 - Flowery Branch highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Flowery Branch, GA (this city): home $422,900, crime 911/100k
Watervliet, NY : home $176,200, crime 2,483/100k
Port Townsend, WA : home $502,500, crime 1,884/100k
Berwick, PA : home $135,000, crime 1,113/100k
Exeter, CA : home $273,500, crime 2,321/100k
Fort Oglethorpe, GA : home $186,500, crime 3,128/100k
Cedartown, GA : home $148,000, crime 2,360/100k
Garden City, GA : home $160,700, crime 4,024/100k
Cordele, GA : home $110,700, crime 5,327/100k
How does Flowery Branch compare to other US cities?
Flowery Branch measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value79% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety68% 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, Flowery Branch ranks #39 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 Flowery Branch 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 Flowery Branch near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Flowery Branch ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Flowery Branch only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#81 of 610
87th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#33 of 577
94th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#497 of 637
22nd percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#68 of 638
89th 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 68th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Flowery Branch's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Flowery Branch'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 Flowery Branch's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$422,90021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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
Flowery Branch's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,551 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,514 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.8×, Flowery Branch sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,551 of 15,516 and #2,514 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
$88,185Flowery Branch, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Flowery Branch, 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 Flowery Branch, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,286
Median Income
$88,185
Median Home Value
$422,900
Median Age
37.6
Poverty Rate
5.1%
Labor force participation
72.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
911.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
72.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
838.6
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Flowery Branch's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,512 residents
2021
10,169 residents
2022
10,970 residents
2023
11,667 residents
2024
12,388 residents
2025
13,110 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
384
housing units authorized
Single-Family
360
detached homes
Multifamily
24
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
37.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
233
233
0
$53.1M
2020
294
294
0
$67.0M
2021
338
338
0
$77.0M
2022
294
294
0
$67.0M
2023
277
277
0
$63.1M
2024
384
360
24
$107.0M
Permit volume increased 65% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.9%
Carpool
8.3%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
22.1%
Based on 5,841 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 Flowery Branch. 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 Flowery Branch 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 Flowery Branch sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Flowery Branch 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.