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SheetGA-ROCKY-FORD-GA · Rocky Ford, GA 309 pop · income 7th 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 Rocky Ford
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rocky Ford on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bakersville · lowest
39,091
Bakersville · lowest
39,091 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #1
Rocky Ford · this city
39,107
Rocky Ford · this city
39,107 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #2
Charlo · near
39,107
Charlo · near
39,107 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #3
Goodville · near
39,107
Goodville · near
39,107 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #4
Romney · near
39,118
Romney · near
39,118 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #5
Robbins · highest
90,375
Robbins · highest
90,375 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Rocky Ford 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: 309.
Nationally, Rocky Ford sits in the 7th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
7th
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: Rocky Ford, GA
Rocky Ford is a small town in Georgia, home to 309 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $39,107 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 22.6%. The median resident age is 39.5 years. About 11.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 35.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA puts Rocky Ford's yearly average temperature at 64.4°F with 48.4 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Georgia's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Workers in Rocky Ford report an average commute of 28.8 minutes, with 77.3% driving alone and 0.0% working from home. 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 Rocky Ford'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 comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rocky Ford, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Rocky Ford?
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 Meansville (311 residents, $45,313 income); Ellenton (306 residents, $61,250 income); Dillard (305 residents, $51,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Anderson, AL (309 residents); Tanana, AK (309 residents); Teller, AK (309 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Rocky Ford?
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 64.4°F, with 48.4 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Rocky Ford?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.8 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. 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.
Is Rocky Ford growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.4% 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.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 22.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Rocky Ford, GA
20/100
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.
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
22.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
11.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$39,107
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Rocky Ford profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 9/100 (F) · 11.1%
Household income: 6/100 (F) · $39,107
How does Rocky Ford compare to other US cities?
Here's how Rocky Ford stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income7% 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 Rocky Ford 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 Rocky Ford near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rocky Ford ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rocky Ford only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#483 of 610
21st percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#151 of 637
76th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#464 of 638
27th 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
7th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$39,107Rocky Ford, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rocky Ford, 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 Rocky Ford, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)35.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
309
Median Income
$39,107
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
39.5
Poverty Rate
22.6%
Labor force participation
35.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
11.1%
Climate
Avg Temperature
64.4°F
Annual Precipitation
48.4"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Rocky Ford's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
166 residents
2021
167 residents
2022
165 residents
2023
167 residents
2024
170 residents
2025
170 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.8 minutes
Drive Alone
77.3%
Carpool
22.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Based on 88 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 Rocky Ford. 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 Rocky Ford 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 Rocky Ford sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rocky Ford 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, 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.