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SheetGA-LAWRENCEVILLE-GA · Lawrenceville, GA 30,626 pop · income 33rd 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 Lawrenceville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lawrenceville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
LaGrange · lowest
41,491
LaGrange · lowest
41,491 median HH income
28.3% of the leader · rank #1
Karnes City · near
58,601
Karnes City · near
58,601 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #2
Monson Center · near
58,603
Monson Center · near
58,603 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #3
Selma · near
58,603
Selma · near
58,603 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lawrenceville · this city
58,606
Lawrenceville · this city
58,606 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #5
Archer City · near
58,607
Archer City · near
58,607 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #6
Eldersburg · highest
146,598
Eldersburg · highest
146,598 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 Lawrenceville 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: 30,626.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lawrenceville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Lawrenceville lands in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 22nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
22nd
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: Lawrenceville, GA
Lawrenceville is a small city in Georgia, home to 30,626 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $58,606 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 16.4%. Lawrenceville's housing stock carries a median value of $335,100, and the median resident age is 32.6 years. 26.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 366 residential building permits were authorized in Lawrenceville (Building Boom), up 375% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2496.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near 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: 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. 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 Lawrenceville'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 schools and households to reported crime to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lawrenceville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, 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 education layer cover for Lawrenceville?
The NCES join finds 37 public schools within the city match. 26.5% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lawrenceville?
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 2496.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 9% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is Lawrenceville 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 +2,280 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 366 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lawrenceville?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Redan (30,426 residents, $63,226 income); Chamblee (30,369 residents, $81,774 income); McDonough (30,056 residents, $77,734 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Eldersburg, MD (30,626 residents); West Falls Church, VA (30,660 residents); Banning, CA (30,680 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.
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 Lawrenceville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.4%, 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.
Household income
$58,606
Home value
$335,100
Value / income
5.7×
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 Lawrenceville?
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 66.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.8%
Work from home
11.3%
Drive alone
66.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 14,914 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 16.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Lawrenceville, GA
37/100
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 C-
26.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$58,606
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
324 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
16.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Lawrenceville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 52/100 (C-) · 26.5%
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $58,606
Violent crime: 30/100 (F) · 324 /100k
Poverty rate: 20/100 (F) · 16.4%
Where Lawrenceville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lawrenceville'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 - Lawrenceville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Lawrenceville, GA (this city): home $335,100, crime 2,497/100k
Banning, CA : home $322,900, crime 1,392/100k
Washington, UT : home $511,100, crime 999/100k
Newington, CT : home $279,900, crime 2,212/100k
Chamblee, GA : home $407,900, crime 4,179/100k
McDonough, GA : home $285,800, crime 2,960/100k
LaGrange, GA : home $175,600, crime 5,111/100k
Duluth, GA : home $366,000, crime 1,363/100k
How does Lawrenceville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lawrenceville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety22% 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, Lawrenceville ranks #105 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 Lawrenceville 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 Lawrenceville near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lawrenceville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lawrenceville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#274 of 610
55th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#72 of 577
88th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#239 of 637
62nd percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#177 of 638
72nd 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 22nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lawrenceville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lawrenceville'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 Lawrenceville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$335,10030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Lawrenceville's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,825 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,886 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.7×, Lawrenceville sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,825 of 15,516 and #2,886 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$58,606Lawrenceville, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lawrenceville, 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 Lawrenceville, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)26.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
30,626
Median Income
$58,606
Median Home Value
$335,100
Median Age
32.6
Poverty Rate
16.4%
Labor force participation
63.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
26.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2496.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
324.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2172.7
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
37
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lawrenceville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
30,542 residents
2021
30,273 residents
2022
30,705 residents
2023
31,242 residents
2024
32,085 residents
2025
32,822 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
366
housing units authorized
Single-Family
51
detached homes
Multifamily
315
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
77
77
0
$18.2M
2020
114
114
0
$17.3M
2021
83
83
0
$11.6M
2022
169
169
0
$31.4M
2023
287
139
148
$36.8M
2024
366
51
315
$80.9M
Permit volume increased 375% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.5%
Carpool
16.1%
Public Transit
1.8%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
11.3%
Other
2.6%
Based on 14,914 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 Lawrenceville. 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 Lawrenceville 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 Lawrenceville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lawrenceville 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.