City · Wilcox County, Georgia

Abbeville, Georgia

Abbeville is a city in Wilcox County, Georgia. It has 2,771 residents. Abbeville, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,553 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #371 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), job growth (high) and depression (low). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and average weekly wage (low).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,553 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #371 of 386 in GA
Population: 2,771 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 906.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1300184

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety2#15,368/15,637
Economy4#14,977/15,631
Housing38#9,313/14,977
Health15#13,292/15,609
Healthcare2#15,354/15,650
Environment22#12,061/15,453
Education26#11,542/15,649
Infrastructure0#15,576/15,650
Community2#15,307/15,651
Leisure & amenities8#14,376/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Abbeville, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Wilcox County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Georgia 14.7 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWilcox County value
Job growth · high7.1%
99/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataWilcox County value
Depression · low16.3%
95/100Georgia 19.3%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Home price to income ratio · low1.9×
91/100Georgia 3.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWilcox County value
Comfortable days · high31.2%
84/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWilcox County value

Weaknesses

Restaurants and bars · low1.1 /10k
0/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWilcox County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.0 /10k
1/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWilcox County value
Average weekly wage · low$806
1/100Georgia $1,404United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWilcox County value
Primary care physicians · low11 /100k
1/100Georgia 67 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWilcox County value
Poverty rate · high41.7%
2/100Georgia 12.8%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Homicide rate · high17.3 /100k
2/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataWilcox County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
32.5% (2015-2019) → 62.0% (2020-2024)
+30 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
56.2% (2015-2019) → 84.6% (2020-2024)
+28 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$22,813 (2015-2019) → $42,311 (2020-2024)
+85%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.0% (2015-2019) → 34.3% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Average commute timeWorsening
32.7 min (2015-2019) → 48.4 min (2020-2024)
+48%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
15.3% (2015-2019) → 24.1% (2020-2024)
+8.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Abbeville, Georgia improved on 3 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Inequality−0.2060.653 → 0.447
Household income+85%$22,813 → $42,311
Broadband+28 points56.2% → 84.6%

Declined1

Rent burden+30 points32.5% → 62.0%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Abbeville, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	32.7 min2015-2019	48.4 min2020-2024	+15.7 min	Within the margin of error	0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	5.1%2015-2019	6.4%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	56.2%2015-2019	84.6%2020-2024	+28 points	Improved	97%
Child poverty rate	54.6%2015-2019	62.9%2020-2024	+8.2 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Effective property tax rate	1.04%2015-2019	0.86%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
High school diploma or higher	75.4%2015-2019	76.5%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Home price to income ratio	1.5×2015-2019	1.9×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	58%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.6532015-2019	0.4472020-2024	−0.206	Improved	100%
Median household income	$22,8132015-2019	$42,3112020-2024	+85%	Improved	97%
Poverty rate	38.8%2015-2019	41.7%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	32.5%2015-2019	62.0%2020-2024	+30 points	Declined	3%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.3%2015-2019	24.1%2020-2024	+8.8 points	Within the margin of error	4%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Abbeville, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Abbeville, Georgia in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Abbeville, Georgia itself moved −3.7 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,771 residents (±20)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

369 households (±80)

Abbeville, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k30%†112
$25k–50k24%†89
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

369 households (±80)

Abbeville, Georgia
Georgia share

Own58%†214
Rent42%†155

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

371 workers (±89)

Abbeville, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone50%†184
Carpool7.3%†27
Public transit

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Wilcox County, the county holding most of Abbeville's residents.

Wilcox County has 82 employer establishments, 93.1 for every 10,000 residents (0.37× the US rate of 248; 0.39× Georgia's), with 533 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,021. The Census Bureau also counts 545 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 82; 545 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 93.1; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 533
Average annual pay: $46,021; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Wilcox County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	6	6.8	0.44×Too few to compare	15	$22,333	39
Banks and credit unions	5	5.7	1.76×Too few to compare	49	$67,939	—
Gasoline stations	5	5.7	1.75×Too few to compare	15	$19,000	—
General merchandise stores	5	5.7	3.21×Too few to compare	27	$23,778	4
Religious organizations	5	5.7	1.02×Too few to compare	12	$14,583	—
Truck transportation	5	5.7	1.12×Too few to compare	23	$78,304	31
Ambulatory health care services	4	4.5	0.22×Too few to compare	18	$48,389	22
Grocery and convenience stores	4	4.5	1.53×Too few to compare	10	$26,000	—
Restaurants and other eating places	4	4.5	0.25×Too few to compare	11	$11,000	—
Building equipment contractors	3	3.4	0.57×Too few to compare	8	$29,625	9
Building material and supplies dealers (hardware, home centers)	3	3.4	2.06×Too few to compare	12	$23,667	—
Offices of physicians	3	3.4	0.53×Too few to compare	13	$43,769	—

Rank places for an industry Open Wilcox County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 8,809 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $2,882 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Abbeville, Georgia: $1.04 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2,882; −97% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.04; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Acquisition Service$2,882100%

Top recipients

ECHELON TECHNOLOGIES, CORP.$2,882100%
WQRI JOINT VENTURE LLC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

1.9KFY2017
1.9KFY2018
1.9KFY2019
3.2KFY2020
0FY2021
-1.7KFY2022
82.4KFY2025
2.9KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Computer systems design and related services · 5415$2,882100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Abbeville, Georgia, so they do not add up across cities.

Abbeville, Georgia's figures are part of those of Wilcox County, GA ($164.1K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.8% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Abbeville is mostly in Wilcox County.

See federal money in Wilcox County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Abbeville, Georgia is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Austin ScottR-GA-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Wilcox County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Wilcox County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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