City · Seminole County, Georgia

Donalsonville, Georgia

Donalsonville is a city in Seminole County, Georgia. It has 2,831 residents. Donalsonville, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 3 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,244 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #330 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), grocery stores (high) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), mental health providers (low) and primary care shortage (high).

3Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,244 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #330 of 386 in GA
Population: 2,831 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 673.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 1323368

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.

Safety40#9,345/15,637
Economy2#15,292/15,631
Housing59#6,192/14,977
Health12#13,774/15,609
Healthcare4#15,069/15,650
Environment11#13,775/15,453
Education7#14,608/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,471/15,650
Community10#14,069/15,651
Leisure & amenities19#12,639/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Donalsonville, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Seminole 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 · high5.5 /10k
100/100Georgia 1.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSeminole County value
Grocery stores · high3.3 /10k
96/100Georgia 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSeminole County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSeminole County value
Social associations · high14.3 /10k
88/100Georgia 8.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
New homes permitted · high9.9 /1k
88/100Georgia 5.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low16.9%
1/100Georgia 74.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Mental health providers · low22 /100k
1/100Georgia 201 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Primary care shortage · high20.0
1/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSeminole County value
Loneliness · high41.6%
2/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Math scores · low2.48
3/100Georgia 2.92United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high182 mi
3/100Georgia 38 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauSeminole County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,424 (2015-2019) → 2,831 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
0.4 /1k (2021) → 9.9 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+2,677%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
63.1% (2015-2019) → 23.8% (2020-2024)
−39 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
57.3% (2015-2019) → 30.1% (2020-2024)
−27 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
33.9% (2015-2019) → 22.1% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
57.2% (2015-2019) → 68.9% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Donalsonville, Georgia improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 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.

Improved2

Child poverty−27 points57.3% → 30.1%
Household income+50%$29,075 → $43,477

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Donalsonville, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.3 min2015-2019	20.5 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.7%2015-2019	7.7%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Broadband subscriptions	57.2%2015-2019	68.9%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Child poverty rate	57.3%2015-2019	30.1%2020-2024	−27 points	Improved	97%
Effective property tax rate	1.50%2015-2019	1.29%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	60%
High school diploma or higher	84.5%2015-2019	88.1%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.0×	Within the margin of error	79%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4522015-2019	0.5172020-2024	+0.065	Within the margin of error	11%
Median household income	$29,0752015-2019	$43,4772020-2024	+50%	Improved	84%
Poverty rate	35.9%2015-2019	28.6%2020-2024	−7.3 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	33.9%2015-2019	22.1%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.3%2015-2019	20.7%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	41%

“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 Donalsonville, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Donalsonville, 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, Donalsonville, Georgia itself moved +6.1 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

2,831 residents (±15)

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

1,073 households (±135)

Donalsonville, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k37%†398
$25k–50k18%†192
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,073 households (±135)

Donalsonville, Georgia
Georgia share

Own58%625
Rent42%†448

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+13.3 points).

† 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

981 workers (±171)

Donalsonville, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone81%799
Carpool12%†117
Public transit0.0%0

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 Seminole County, the county holding most of Donalsonville's residents.

Seminole County has 170 employer establishments, 187 for every 10,000 residents (0.75× the US rate of 248; 0.79× Georgia's), with 1,639 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,538. The Census Bureau also counts 602 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 170; 602 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 187; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 1,639
Average annual pay: $44,538; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	15	16.5	0.79×Fewer than typical	45	$86,822	31
Religious organizations	13	14.3	2.58×More than typical	55	$19,091	—
Restaurants and other eating places	10	11	0.60×Fewer than typical	99	$18,263	—
Truck transportation	10	11	2.18×More than typical	132	$75,992	37
Offices of physicians	9	9.9	1.53×Too few to compare	36	$94,028	3
Gasoline stations	8	8.8	2.72×Too few to compare	24	$30,917	—
General merchandise stores	7	7.7	4.36×Too few to compare	52	$21,673	3
Grocery and convenience stores	7	7.7	2.60×Too few to compare	84	$20,988	—
Banks and credit unions	6	6.6	2.05×Too few to compare	50	$59,980	—
Full-service restaurants	6	6.6	0.86×Too few to compare	22	$25,182	—
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	5	5.5	3.15×Too few to compare	25	$31,760	—
Health and personal care stores	5	5.5	2.08×Too few to compare	52	$31,577	9

Rank places for an industry Open Seminole County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,081 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 $27.5K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Donalsonville, Georgia: $9.72 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $27.5K; +60% vs FY2025
Per resident: $9.72; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; 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

Agricultural Marketing Service$27.5K100%

Top recipients

GUIDRY LIASON GROUP, INC.$27.5K100%

Spending by fiscal year

-46.4FY2017
742KFY2019
2.8KFY2020
39.4KFY2024
17.2KFY2025
27.5KFY2026

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$27.5K100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Other food manufacturing · 3119$27.5K100%

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

Donalsonville, Georgia's figures are part of those of Seminole County, GA ($1.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in Seminole 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.

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

House

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.D-GA-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 93%Missed 1.9%

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.

Seminole County3100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Seminole County

Largest first.

Iron City371

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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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