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SheetGA-MOULTRIE-GA · Moultrie, GA 14,545 pop · income 11th pct · 15 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 Moultrie
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Moultrie on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bainbridge · lowest
41,531
Bainbridge · lowest
41,531 median HH income
24.1% of the leader · rank #1
Mount Morris · near
42,886
Mount Morris · near
42,886 median HH income
24.8% of the leader · rank #2
Port Henry · near
42,895
Port Henry · near
42,895 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #3
Moultrie · this city
42,900
Moultrie · this city
42,900 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #4
Yah-ta-hey · near
42,903
Yah-ta-hey · near
42,903 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #5
Poquonock Bri… · near
42,907
Poquonock Bri… · near
42,907 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #6
Key Biscayne · highest
172,604
Key Biscayne · highest
172,604 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 Moultrie 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: 14,545.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Moultrie - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Moultrie places in the 11th percentile for household income and the 2nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
11th
percentile, household income
29th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
2nd
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: Moultrie, GA
Georgia's Moultrie is a small town, with 14,545 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Moultrie households earn a median of $42,900 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 25.2%. Typical homes in Moultrie are valued around $155,900, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. About 21.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 54.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 52 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 73% from five years earlier. Moultrie's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 6070.4 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 66.3°F with 50.0 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Georgia run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 16.6 minutes, with 81.5% driving alone and 4.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Moultrie'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 climate and hazard context to population change to within-city variation to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Moultrie, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What physical conditions frame life in Moultrie?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.3°F, with 50.0 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.
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.
Is Moultrie 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 +342 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 52 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
PlainCities matches 15 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Moultrie?
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Clarkston (14,560 residents, $46,495 income); Wilmington Island (14,457 residents, $92,578 income); Dallas (14,440 residents, $73,387 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Parlier, CA (14,545 residents); Nolensville, TN (14,545 residents); Edgewater, NJ (14,544 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Moultrie?
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 6070.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 166% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
4908.6
Violent rate
1161.8
Total reported rate
6070.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Moultrie?
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 81.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.6 minutes.
Public transit
0.1%
Work from home
4.2%
Drive alone
81.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,022 workers age 16+.
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 21.1% 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
8
Bachelor's degree+
21.1%
Poverty estimate
25.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Moultrie?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 25.2%, 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
$42,900
Home value
$155,900
Value / income
3.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Low income · poverty 25.2% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Moultrie, GA
21/100
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
21.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$42,900
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
25.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
1,162 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Moultrie profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 38/100 (F) · 21.1%
Household income: 11/100 (F) · $42,900
Poverty rate: 6/100 (F) · 25.2%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,162 /100k
Where Moultrie sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Moultrie'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 - Moultrie highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Moultrie, GA (this city): home $155,900, crime 6,070/100k
Parlier, CA : home $236,100, crime 1,864/100k
Nolensville, TN : home $695,100, crime 257/100k
Edgewater, NJ : home $723,400, crime 1,321/100k
Reidsville, NC : home $139,000, crime 3,332/100k
Key Biscayne, FL : home $1,238,700, crime 832/100k
Greenwich, CT : home $1,486,100, crime 877/100k
Dallas, GA : home $234,700, crime 681/100k
Bainbridge, GA : home $150,600, crime 3,631/100k
Covington, GA : home $242,700, crime 4,465/100k
How does Moultrie compare to other US cities?
Here's how Moultrie stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income11% higher than other cities
Home value29% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety2% 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: Moultrie ranks #163 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 Moultrie 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 Moultrie near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Moultrie ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Moultrie only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#440 of 610
28th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#318 of 577
45th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#116 of 637
82nd percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#246 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
11th percentile nationally for median household income · 2nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Moultrie's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Moultrie'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 Moultrie's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$155,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 71% 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
Moultrie's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,486 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,620 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Moultrie sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,486 of 15,516 and #1,620 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
$42,900Moultrie, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Moultrie, 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 Moultrie, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)25.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,545
Median Income
$42,900
Median Home Value
$155,900
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
25.2%
Labor force participation
54.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
6070.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1161.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
4908.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.3°F
Annual Precipitation
50.0"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Moultrie's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,631 residents
2021
14,379 residents
2022
14,580 residents
2023
14,688 residents
2024
14,798 residents
2025
14,973 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
52
housing units authorized
Single-Family
18
detached homes
Multifamily
34
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
30
26
4
$5.1M
2020
13
13
0
$2.4M
2021
51
17
34
$5.8M
2022
41
27
14
$7.9M
2023
46
34
12
$6.9M
2024
52
18
34
$7.5M
Permit volume increased 73% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.6 minutes
Drive Alone
81.5%
Carpool
13.6%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
4.2%
Based on 6,022 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 Moultrie. 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 Moultrie 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 Moultrie sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Moultrie 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.