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SheetGA-STATESBORO-GA · Statesboro, GA 33,705 pop · income 11th pct · 20 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 Statesboro
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Statesboro on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gadsden · lowest
38,699
Gadsden · lowest
38,699 median HH income
27.7% of the leader · rank #1
Chelsea · near
42,875
Chelsea · near
42,875 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #2
Combes · near
42,880
Combes · near
42,880 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #3
Statesboro · this city
42,884
Statesboro · this city
42,884 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #4
Lorenzo · near
42,885
Lorenzo · near
42,885 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #5
Mount Morris · near
42,886
Mount Morris · near
42,886 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #6
Baldwin · highest
139,840
Baldwin · highest
139,840 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 Statesboro 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: 33,705.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Statesboro - the verdict
Nationally, Statesboro sits in the 11th percentile for household income and the 21st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
11th
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
21st
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: Statesboro, GA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 33,705 residents in Statesboro, a small city within Georgia. Median household income here is $42,884 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.3%. Home values in Statesboro run a median of $158,600, and the median resident age is 22.5 years. 30.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 168 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 42% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2610.1 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Georgia's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Workers in Statesboro report an average commute of 19.1 minutes, with 72.6% driving alone and 9.8% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 39.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Statesboro'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 work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to within-city variation to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Statesboro, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Statesboro?
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 Kennesaw (33,627 residents, $79,759 income); Martinez (33,019 residents, $85,617 income); Dalton (34,402 residents, $61,236 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Walla Walla, WA (33,766 residents); Uniondale, NY (33,637 residents); Englewood, CO (33,774 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 journey to work look like in Statesboro?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.1 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.
What does the education layer cover for Statesboro?
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 10 public schools within the city match. 30.1% 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.
What can 20 Census tracts reveal inside Statesboro?
PlainCities matches 20 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Statesboro?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.7×
Home value
$158,600
Household income
$42,884
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Statesboro growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,899 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 168 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.
2020 estimate
33,467
2025 estimate
35,366
Period change
+5.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Statesboro?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2610.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 14% higher 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
2610.1
Violent rate
370.8
Property rate
2239.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Statesboro, GA
30/100
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 C
30.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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 F
371 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
20.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$42,884
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Statesboro profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 30.1%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 371 /100k
Poverty rate: 13/100 (F) · 20.3%
Household income: 11/100 (F) · $42,884
Where Statesboro sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Statesboro'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 - Statesboro highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Statesboro, GA (this city): home $158,600, crime 2,610/100k
Walla Walla, WA : home $356,600, crime 2,498/100k
Englewood, CO : home $534,000, crime 5,908/100k
Alabaster, AL : home $242,600, crime 1,610/100k
Gadsden, AL : home $101,900, crime 3,159/100k
Kennesaw, GA : home $291,300, crime 1,099/100k
Dalton, GA : home $203,100, crime 2,146/100k
Canton, GA : home $369,700, crime 930/100k
Hinesville, GA : home $174,300, crime 3,118/100k
Duluth, GA : home $366,000, crime 1,363/100k
How does Statesboro compare to other US cities?
Where Statesboro sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income11% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety21% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Georgia, Statesboro ranks #110 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Statesboro 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 Statesboro near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Statesboro ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Statesboro only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#441 of 610
28th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#311 of 577
46th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#175 of 637
72nd percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#141 of 638
78th 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 · 21st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Statesboro's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Statesboro'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 Statesboro's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Statesboro's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,711 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,686 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.7×, Statesboro sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,711 of 15,516 and #1,686 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
$42,884Statesboro, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Statesboro, 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 Statesboro, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
33,705
Median Income
$42,884
Median Home Value
$158,600
Median Age
22.5
Poverty Rate
20.3%
Labor force participation
51.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2610.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
370.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2239.3
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Statesboro's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
33,467 residents
2021
33,294 residents
2022
34,335 residents
2023
34,431 residents
2024
35,277 residents
2025
35,366 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
168
housing units authorized
Single-Family
162
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
118
100
18
$9.2M
2020
136
136
0
$8.5M
2021
184
184
0
$17.8M
2022
56
56
0
$8.7M
2023
471
133
338
$82.6M
2024
168
162
6
$25.8M
Permit volume increased 42% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.1 minutes
Drive Alone
72.6%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
1.7%
Walk
3.3%
Work from Home
9.8%
Other
2.9%
Based on 14,155 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 Statesboro. 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 Statesboro 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 Statesboro sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Statesboro 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.