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SheetGA-MILTON-GA · Milton, GA 41,305 pop · income 94th 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 Milton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Milton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hallandale Be… · lowest
48,518
Hallandale Be… · lowest
48,518 median HH income
27.7% of the leader · rank #1
Milton · this city
151,235
Milton · this city
151,235 median HH income
86.3% of the leader · rank #2
Brownsboro Fa… · near
151,250
Brownsboro Fa… · near
151,250 median HH income
86.3% of the leader · rank #3
Thornhill · near
151,250
Thornhill · near
151,250 median HH income
86.3% of the leader · rank #4
Catalpa Canyon · near
151,250
Catalpa Canyon · near
151,250 median HH income
86.3% of the leader · rank #5
Sunset Valley · near
151,250
Sunset Valley · near
151,250 median HH income
86.3% of the leader · rank #6
Rancho Palos… · highest
175,307
Rancho Palos… · highest
175,307 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 Milton 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: 41,305.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Milton - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Milton lands in the 94th percentile for household income and the 83rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
94th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
83rd
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: Milton, GA
Milton is a small city in Georgia, home to 41,305 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Milton households earn a median of $151,235 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.4%. Milton's housing stock carries a median value of $712,200, and the median resident age is 40.5 years. About 77.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 117 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 19% from five years earlier. Milton reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 543.2 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Georgia at 96.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). 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 Milton'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 schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Milton, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
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.
1. Population change
Is Milton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -134 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 117 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 77.5% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Milton?
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 543.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 76% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Milton?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Peachtree Corners (42,184 residents, $81,413 income); Mableton (42,403 residents, $84,662 income); Newnan (43,510 residents, $80,299 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (41,259 residents); Florence, AL (41,231 residents); Hallandale Beach, FL (41,224 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Milton?
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 59.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.5%
Work from home
33.7%
Drive alone
59.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 21,962 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Milton?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.4%, 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
$151,235
Home value
$712,200
Value / income
4.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
A-
City profile score · Milton, GA
80/100
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 A+
77.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$151,235
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
94 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Milton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 77.5%
Household income: 97/100 (A+) · $151,235
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.4%
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 94 /100k
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Where Milton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Milton'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 - Milton highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Milton, GA (this city): home $712,200, crime 543/100k
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA : home $1,541,400, crime 975/100k
Florence, AL : home $174,100, crime 2,647/100k
Marlborough, MA : home $485,400, crime 1,458/100k
Shelton, CT : home $435,700, crime 751/100k
Woburn, MA : home $641,800, crime 1,142/100k
Newnan, GA : home $327,800, crime 2,296/100k
Peachtree City, GA : home $461,000, crime 838/100k
Gainesville, GA : home $337,000, crime 2,789/100k
East Point, GA : home $247,500, crime 7,870/100k
How does Milton compare to other US cities?
Here's how Milton stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety83% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Georgia alone, Milton ranks #25 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Milton 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 Milton near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Milton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Milton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#8 of 610
99th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#3 of 577
99th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#544 of 637
14th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#5 of 638
99th 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income · 83rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Milton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Milton'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 Milton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$712,2007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Milton's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,395 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,467 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Milton sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,395 of 15,516 and #2,467 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
$151,235Milton, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Milton, 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 Milton, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)77.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
41,305
Median Income
$151,235
Median Home Value
$712,200
Median Age
40.5
Poverty Rate
3.4%
Labor force participation
69.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
77.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
543.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
93.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
449.5
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Milton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
41,400 residents
2021
41,329 residents
2022
41,865 residents
2023
41,488 residents
2024
41,409 residents
2025
41,266 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
117
housing units authorized
Single-Family
117
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
144
144
0
$34.1M
2020
119
119
0
$87.1M
2021
206
206
0
$52.1M
2022
136
136
0
$34.2M
2023
95
95
0
$26.7M
2024
117
117
0
$33.6M
Permit volume decreased 19% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
59.2%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
33.7%
Other
0.9%
Based on 21,962 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 Milton. 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 Milton 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 Milton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Milton 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.