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SheetGA-LEXINGTON-GA · Lexington, GA 470 pop · income 61st 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 Lexington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lexington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
New England · lowest
27,473
New England · lowest
27,473 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #1
Lexington · this city
80,000
Lexington · this city
80,000 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #2
Guilford Cent… · near
80,000
Guilford Cent… · near
80,000 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #3
Grand Rivers · near
80,000
Grand Rivers · near
80,000 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #4
Eastwood · near
80,000
Eastwood · near
80,000 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #5
Morningside · near
80,000
Morningside · near
80,000 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #6
Helen · highest
83,654
Helen · highest
83,654 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 Lexington 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: 470.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Lexington lands in the 61st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
61st
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: Lexington, GA
Lexington is a small town in Georgia, home to 470 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lexington report a median income of $80,000 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 35.5%. The median resident age is 16.0 years. Educational attainment runs 33.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 81.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 61.8°F with 49.5 inches of precipitation per year and 0.5 inches of snowfall.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Georgia, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Lexington report an average commute of 28.4 minutes, with 85.9% driving alone and 0.5% working from home. 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 Lexington'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 climate and hazard context to work and mobility to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lexington, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Lexington?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 33.0% 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 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 61.8°F, with 49.5 inches of precipitation and 0.5 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Lexington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.4 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lexington?
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 Arnoldsville (470 residents, $46,964 income); Fargo (470 residents, $71,105 income); Helen (470 residents, $83,654 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rancho Mesa Verde, AZ (470 residents); Red Mesa, AZ (470 residents); Michigantown, IN (470 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.
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.
Population change
Is Lexington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +18 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.0% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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.
2020 estimate
200
2025 estimate
218
Period change
+9.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 35.5% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
D
City profile score · Lexington, GA
45/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$80,000
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Poverty rate F
35.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Lexington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 33.0%
Household income: 59/100 (C) · $80,000
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 35.5%
How does Lexington compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lexington stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income61% 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 Lexington 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 Lexington near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lexington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lexington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#123 of 610
80th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#39 of 637
94th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#119 of 638
81st 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
61st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$80,000Lexington, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lexington, 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 Lexington, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)35.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)81.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
470
Median Income
$80,000
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
16.0
Poverty Rate
35.5%
Labor force participation
81.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.0%
Climate
Avg Temperature
61.8°F
Annual Precipitation
49.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.5"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lexington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
200 residents
2021
204 residents
2022
207 residents
2023
211 residents
2024
215 residents
2025
218 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.4 minutes
Drive Alone
85.9%
Carpool
13.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.5%
Based on 191 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 Lexington. 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 Lexington 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 Lexington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lexington 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, NCES CCD, 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.