Census-designated place · Ware County, Georgia

Deenwood, Georgia

Deenwood is a census-designated place in Ware County, Georgia, part of the Waycross, GA metro area. It has 2,360 residents. Deenwood, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 16 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,202 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #206 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), rent as share of income (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), firearm deaths (high) and grocery stores (low).

16Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,202 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #206 of 386 in GA
Population: 2,360 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 703.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 1322080

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety3#15,098/15,637
Economy17#12,897/15,631
Housing94#828/14,977
Health6#14,731/15,609
Healthcare18#12,875/15,650
Environment39#9,396/15,453
Education28#11,229/15,649
Infrastructure48#8,101/15,650
Community6#14,777/15,651
Leisure & amenities32#10,596/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Deenwood, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Ware 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

Pharmacies · high3.3 /10k
97/100Georgia 1.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWare County value
Rent as share of income · low21.2%
96/100Georgia 31.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Social associations · high14.6 /10k
90/100Georgia 8.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWare County value
Comfortable days · high32.2%
87/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWare County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWare County value
Distance to an emergency room · low3.6 mi
85/100Georgia 7.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWare County value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high20.0
1/100Georgia 9.6United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWare County value
Firearm deaths · high33.1 /100k
2/100Georgia 16.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWare County value
Grocery stores · low0.5 /10k
2/100Georgia 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWare County value
Life expectancy · low70.2 yrs
3/100Georgia 76.0 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWare County value
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWare County value
Dental care shortage · high19.0
3/100Georgia 5.9United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWare County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,579 (2015-2019) → 2,360 (2020-2024)
−8.5%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
69.4% (2015-2019) → 4.5% (2020-2024)
−65 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
39.0% (2015-2019) → 21.2% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.8% (2015-2019) → 95.5% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.9% (2015-2019) → 13.9% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$38,663 (2015-2019) → $57,045 (2020-2024)
+48%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Deenwood, Georgia improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved1

Broadband+16 points79.8% → 95.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Deenwood, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.3 min2015-2019	20.7 min2020-2024	−0.6 min	Within the margin of error	56%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.6%2015-2019	15.4%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Broadband subscriptions	79.8%2015-2019	95.5%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	82%
Effective property tax rate	0.88%2015-2019	0.65%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	63%
High school diploma or higher	94.2%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4142015-2019	0.4492020-2024	+0.035	Within the margin of error	24%
Median household income	$38,6632015-2019	$57,0452020-2024	+48%	Within the margin of error	82%
Rent as share of income	39.0%2015-2019	21.2%2020-2024	−18 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	16.3%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	70%

“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 Deenwood, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Deenwood, 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, Deenwood, Georgia itself moved +11.5 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

2,360 residents (±552)

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

714 households (±145)

Deenwood, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k21%†150
$25k–50k26%†186
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

714 households (±145)

Deenwood, Georgia
Georgia share

Own70%498
Rent30%†216

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

709 workers (±191)

Deenwood, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone96%681
Carpool2.8%†20
Public transit1.1%†8

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Waycross, GA

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 Ware County, the county holding most of Deenwood's residents.

Ware County has 890 employer establishments, 245 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 1.04× Georgia's), with 12,693 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,539. The Census Bureau also counts 2,385 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 890; 2,385 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 245; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 12,693
Average annual pay: $46,539; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	119	32.7	1.57×More than typical	1,351	$62,696	119
Restaurants and other eating places	73	20.1	1.09×About typical	1,697	$15,733	12
Offices of physicians	58	15.9	2.46×More than typical	490	$89,355	17
Religious organizations	44	12.1	2.18×More than typical	210	$18,819	—
Limited-service restaurants	43	11.8	1.47×More than typical	1,019	$14,382	4
Specialty trade contractors	41	11.3	0.73×Fewer than typical	288	$46,976	165
Gasoline stations	32	8.8	2.71×More than typical	206	$22,165	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	24	6.6	1.31×More than typical	139	$37,727	61
Lessors of real estate	23	6.3	0.51×Fewer than typical	53	$33,075	181
Offices of other health practitioners	23	6.3	1.04×About typical	178	$39,747	35
Full-service restaurants	21	5.8	0.75×Fewer than typical	546	$19,330	6
Health and personal care stores	21	5.8	2.18×More than typical	150	$36,607	29

Rank places for an industry Open Ware County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 36,398 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 $5,824 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Deenwood, Georgia: $2.47 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $5,824; +126% vs FY2025
Per resident: $2.47; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$5,824100%

Top recipients

TACOMA SCREW PRODUCTS, INC.$4,50677%
QUALIFIED FASTENERS INC$1,31823%

Spending by fiscal year

162.5KFY2017
185.6KFY2018
220.3KFY2019
119.2KFY2020
153.4KFY2021
139.6KFY2022
153KFY2023
141.4K

Top industries (NAICS)

Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$5,824100%

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 Deenwood, Georgia, so they do not add up across cities.

Deenwood, Georgia's figures are part of those of Ware County, GA ($74.1K in FY2026), never added to them: 7.9% of that total.

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

See federal money in Ware 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.

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

House

Earl L. "Buddy" CarterR-GA-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 5.5%

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.

Ware County8100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Waycross, GA3

Other cities and towns in Ware 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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