Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetGA-SNELLVILLE-GA · Snellville, GA 21,203 pop · income 69th 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 Snellville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Snellville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Forest Park · lowest
42,286
Forest Park · lowest
42,286 median HH income
39.9% of the leader · rank #1
Santa Ana · near
88,354
Santa Ana · near
88,354 median HH income
83.4% of the leader · rank #2
Mills River · near
88,359
Mills River · near
88,359 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #3
Snellville · this city
88,378
Snellville · this city
88,378 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #4
Glasgow · near
88,393
Glasgow · near
88,393 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #5
Belleville · near
88,393
Belleville · near
88,393 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #6
Suwanee · highest
105,878
Suwanee · highest
105,878 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 Snellville 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: 21,203.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Snellville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Snellville lands in the 69th percentile for household income and the 27th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
64th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
27th
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: Snellville, GA
Snellville is a small city in Georgia, home to 21,203 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Snellville households earn a median of $88,378 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Home values in Snellville run a median of $293,400, and the median resident age is 41.8 years. About 39.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 58.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 60 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 36% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2258.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Georgia run below the national norm: the state registers 96.3 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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 Snellville'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Snellville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, 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.
Question 1
Is Snellville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,883 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 60 housing units authorized in 2024. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Snellville?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Snellville?
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.
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Candler-McAfee (21,316 residents, $62,299 income); Suwanee (21,811 residents, $105,878 income); Perry (22,243 residents, $81,648 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Montgomery, IL (21,205 residents); Lebanon, OH (21,216 residents); Carrboro, NC (21,170 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 does the education layer cover for Snellville?
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 14 public schools within the city match. 39.4% 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.
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 Snellville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2258.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 1% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
2258.0
Violent rate
186.0
Property rate
2072.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Snellville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
66.1%
Work from home
16.0%
Public transit
1.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 9,877 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
B-
City profile score · Snellville, GA
66/100
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.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
39.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B-
$88,378
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.
Violent crime C-
186 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Snellville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 74/100 (B) · 39.4%
Household income: 68/100 (B-) · $88,378
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 50/100 (C-) · 186 /100k
Where Snellville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Snellville'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 - Snellville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Snellville, GA (this city): home $293,400, crime 2,258/100k
Montgomery, IL : home $270,700, crime 1,027/100k
Lebanon, OH : home $257,100, crime 1,205/100k
Carrboro, NC : home $507,100, crime 2,110/100k
Milwaukie, OR : home $477,200, crime 1,720/100k
Suwanee, GA : home $439,700, crime 3,235/100k
Perry, GA : home $209,300, crime 1,896/100k
Acworth, GA : home $309,800, crime 1,230/100k
Forest Park, GA : home $119,000, crime 3,437/100k
Fayetteville, GA : home $331,700, crime 2,699/100k
How does Snellville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Snellville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value64% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety27% 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, Snellville ranks #94 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 Snellville 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 Snellville near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Snellville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Snellville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#80 of 610
87th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#94 of 577
84th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#563 of 637
11th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#83 of 638
87th 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 27th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Snellville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Snellville'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 Snellville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$293,40036th percentilemore affordable than 36% 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
Snellville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,211 of 15,516
More affordable than 47% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,311 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, Snellville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,211 of 15,516 and #1,311 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
$88,378Snellville, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Snellville, 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 Snellville, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,203
Median Income
$88,378
Median Home Value
$293,400
Median Age
41.8
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
58.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2258.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
186.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2072.1
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
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Snellville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
20,595 residents
2021
20,859 residents
2022
22,100 residents
2023
22,267 residents
2024
22,484 residents
2025
22,478 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
60
housing units authorized
Single-Family
42
detached homes
Multifamily
18
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
94
94
0
$22.5M
2020
138
127
11
$26.7M
2021
454
158
296
$64.5M
2022
92
92
0
$15.3M
2023
71
71
0
$18.3M
2024
60
42
18
$16.1M
Permit volume decreased 36% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.1%
Carpool
11.9%
Public Transit
1.7%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
16.0%
Other
2.7%
Based on 9,877 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 Snellville. 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 Snellville 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 Snellville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Snellville 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.