Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetGA-HINESVILLE-GA · Hinesville, GA 35,282 pop · income 34th pct · 5 tracts
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 Hinesville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hinesville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Statesboro · lowest
42,884
Statesboro · lowest
42,884 median HH income
34.7% of the leader · rank #1
West Perrine · near
59,213
West Perrine · near
59,213 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #2
Hinesville · this city
59,216
Hinesville · this city
59,216 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #3
Tamarac · near
59,216
Tamarac · near
59,216 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #4
Mount Pleasant · near
59,216
Mount Pleasant · near
59,216 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #5
Parma Heights · near
59,218
Parma Heights · near
59,218 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #6
Watertown · highest
123,422
Watertown · highest
123,422 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 Hinesville 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: 35,282.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hinesville - the verdict
Nationally, Hinesville sits in the 34th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
34th
percentile, household income
35th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
15th
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: Hinesville, GA
35,282 people live in Hinesville, Georgia - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Hinesville report a median income of $59,216 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.8%. Typical homes in Hinesville are valued around $174,300, and the median resident age is 29.0 years. Educational attainment runs 20.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 49.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 148 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 79% from five years earlier. Hinesville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3118.0 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Georgia, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Hinesville'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 population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to schools and households to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hinesville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Hinesville 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 +1,619 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 148 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Hinesville?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hinesville?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Stockbridge (35,475 residents, $70,579 income); Canton (34,587 residents, $81,642 income); Dalton (34,402 residents, $61,236 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Brunswick, OH (35,284 residents); Watertown, MA (35,270 residents); Lima, OH (35,304 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.
What can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Hinesville?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Hinesville?
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 20.7% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
10
Bachelor's degree+
20.7%
Poverty estimate
12.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Hinesville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.8%, 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. 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.
Household income
$59,216
Home value
$174,300
Value / income
2.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hinesville?
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 3118.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 37% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2431.5
Violent rate
686.5
Total reported rate
3118.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 12.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Hinesville, GA
32/100
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.
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
20.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$59,216
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
687 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Hinesville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 36/100 (F) · 20.7%
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $59,216
Poverty rate: 29/100 (F) · 12.8%
Violent crime: 6/100 (F) · 687 /100k
Where Hinesville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hinesville'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 - Hinesville highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Hinesville, GA (this city): home $174,300, crime 3,118/100k
Brunswick, OH : home $233,300, crime 449/100k
Watertown, MA : home $737,600, crime 2,012/100k
Lima, OH : home $95,900, crime 4,127/100k
Mount Vernon, WA : home $429,300, crime 1,966/100k
Stockbridge, GA : home $248,000, crime 2,580/100k
Canton, GA : home $369,700, crime 930/100k
Dalton, GA : home $203,100, crime 2,146/100k
Douglasville, GA : home $313,500, crime 5,168/100k
Woodstock, GA : home $387,300, crime 1,081/100k
Statesboro, GA : home $158,600, crime 2,610/100k
How does Hinesville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Hinesville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income34% higher than other cities
Home value35% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety15% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Georgia and the picture shifts: Hinesville ranks #127 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hinesville 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 Hinesville near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hinesville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hinesville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#269 of 610
56th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#272 of 577
53rd percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#296 of 637
53rd percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#255 of 638
60th 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
34th percentile nationally for median household income · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hinesville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hinesville'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 Hinesville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$174,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 65% 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
Hinesville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,390 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#827 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Hinesville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,390 of 15,516 and #827 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$59,216Hinesville, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hinesville, 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 Hinesville, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,282
Median Income
$59,216
Median Home Value
$174,300
Median Age
29.0
Poverty Rate
12.8%
Labor force participation
49.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3118.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
686.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2431.5
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hinesville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
35,055 residents
2021
34,996 residents
2022
35,491 residents
2023
36,262 residents
2024
36,516 residents
2025
36,674 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
148
housing units authorized
Single-Family
144
detached homes
Multifamily
4
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
696
228
468
$102.1M
2020
138
138
0
$34.0M
2021
179
179
0
$40.6M
2022
321
321
0
$63.3M
2023
289
289
0
$80.6M
2024
148
144
4
$43.2M
Permit volume decreased 79% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.6%
Carpool
9.1%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
6.1%
Other
1.0%
Based on 15,711 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 Hinesville. 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 Hinesville 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 Hinesville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hinesville 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.