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SheetGA-FORT-STEWART-GA · Fort Stewart, GA 9,976 pop · income 21st 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 Fort Stewart
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fort Stewart on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cordele · lowest
31,564
Cordele · lowest
31,564 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #1
Dinosaur · near
51,086
Dinosaur · near
51,086 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #2
Junction City · near
51,087
Junction City · near
51,087 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #3
Shawneetown · near
51,089
Shawneetown · near
51,089 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #4
Fort Stewart · this city
51,090
Fort Stewart · this city
51,090 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #5
Mobile · near
51,090
Mobile · near
51,090 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #6
Kinnelon · highest
178,102
Kinnelon · highest
178,102 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 Fort Stewart 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: 9,976.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Fort Stewart lands in the 21st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
21st
percentile, household income
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: Fort Stewart, GA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 9,976 residents in Fort Stewart, a small town within Georgia. Households in Fort Stewart report a median income of $51,090 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 14.7%. The median resident age is 21.6 years. 21.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 24.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA puts Fort Stewart's yearly average temperature at 67.8°F with 51.0 inches of precipitation per year.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,203 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Georgia run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Fort Stewart report an average commute of 11.6 minutes, with 73.9% driving alone and 2.8% 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 Fort Stewart'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 climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fort Stewart, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits; 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 Fort Stewart?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 11.6 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Fort Stewart?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 67.8°F, with 51.0 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Georgia is 39.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fort Stewart?
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 Locust Grove (9,931 residents, $72,563 income); Cairo (10,067 residents, $40,496 income); Jesup (9,863 residents, $48,306 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cape Canaveral, FL (9,976 residents); Columbia City, IN (9,975 residents); Sweet Home, OR (9,977 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.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Fort Stewart, GA
34/100
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 F
21.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$51,090
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).
Fort Stewart profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 37/100 (F) · 21.0%
Poverty rate: 23/100 (F) · 14.7%
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,090
How does Fort Stewart compare to other US cities?
Where Fort Stewart sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income21% higher 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 Fort Stewart 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 Fort Stewart near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fort Stewart ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fort Stewart only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#344 of 610
44th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#267 of 637
58th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#247 of 638
61st 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$51,090Fort Stewart, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fort Stewart, 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 Fort Stewart, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)24.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,976
Median Income
$51,090
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
21.6
Poverty Rate
14.7%
Labor force participation
24.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.0%
Climate
Avg Temperature
67.8°F
Annual Precipitation
51.0"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
11.6 minutes
Drive Alone
73.9%
Carpool
10.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
11.0%
Work from Home
2.8%
Other
1.7%
Based on 4,791 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 Fort Stewart. 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 Fort Stewart 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 Fort Stewart sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fort Stewart 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.