City · Dodge County, Georgia

Eastman, Georgia

Eastman is a city in Dodge County, Georgia. It has 5,584 residents. Eastman, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 3 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,231 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #329 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on drinking water violations (low), comfortable days (high) and average commute time (low). It ranks worst on average weekly wage (low), restaurants and bars (low) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

3Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,231 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #329 of 386 in GA
Population: 5,584 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 846.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 1325552

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.

Safety7#14,472/15,637
Economy16#13,101/15,631
Housing48#7,811/14,977
Health11#13,946/15,609
Healthcare7#14,575/15,650
Environment18#12,695/15,453
Education35#10,222/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,709/15,650
Community6#14,748/15,651
Leisure & amenities2#15,389/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDodge County value
Comfortable days · high31.5%
85/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDodge County value
Average commute time · low16.8 min
83/100Georgia 28.3 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Home price to income ratio · low2.5×
78/100Georgia 3.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Georgia 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDodge County value
Child care cost burden · low25.0%
74/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDodge County value

Weaknesses

Average weekly wage · low$816
1/100Georgia $1,404United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDodge County value
Restaurants and bars · low2.5 /10k
1/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDodge County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.0 /10k
3/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDodge County value
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationDodge County value
Loneliness · high40.4%
3/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Homicide rate · high12.9 /100k
4/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataDodge County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
5,135 (2015-2019) → 5,584 (2020-2024)
+8.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
36.4% (2015-2019) → 4.5% (2020-2024)
−32 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.7 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
66.6% (2015-2019) → 86.5% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
15.0% (2015-2019) → 33.5% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Poverty rateImproving
25.2% (2015-2019) → 15.3% (2020-2024)
−9.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Eastman, Georgia improved on 4 of 12 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.

Improved4

Bachelor's++19 points15.0% → 33.5%
Poverty−9.9 points25.2% → 15.3%
Broadband+20 points66.6% → 86.5%
Household income+47%$35,595 → $52,394

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Eastman, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.9 min2015-2019	16.8 min2020-2024	−9.1 min	Within the margin of error	98%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.0%2015-2019	33.5%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	99%
Broadband subscriptions	66.6%2015-2019	86.5%2020-2024	+20 points	Improved	90%
Effective property tax rate	1.12%2015-2019	0.88%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	67%
High school diploma or higher	84.4%2015-2019	85.3%2020-2024	+0.9 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	75%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5102015-2019	0.4342020-2024	−0.075	Within the margin of error	92%
Median household income	$35,5952015-2019	$52,3942020-2024	+47%	Improved	82%
Poverty rate	25.2%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	−9.9 points	Improved	93%
Rent as share of income	24.9%2015-2019	27.3%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent-burdened households	39.3%2015-2019	41.7%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.9%2015-2019	20.3%2020-2024	+6.4 points	Within the margin of error	7%

“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 Eastman, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Eastman, 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, Eastman, Georgia itself moved +14.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

5,584 residents (±24)

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

2,222 households (±200)

Eastman, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k24%†526
$25k–50k24%†540
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,222 households (±200)

Eastman, Georgia
Georgia share

Own54%1,196
Rent46%1,026

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,207 workers (±274)

Eastman, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone75%1,655
Carpool15%†322
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 Dodge County, the county holding most of Eastman's residents.

Dodge County has 311 employer establishments, 157 for every 10,000 residents (0.63× the US rate of 248; 0.67× Georgia's), with 3,117 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,555. The Census Bureau also counts 1,630 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 311; 1,630 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 157; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 3,117
Average annual pay: $37,555; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	28	14.2	0.68×Fewer than typical	353	$38,269	91
Religious organizations	20	10.1	1.82×More than typical	59	$19,288	—
Restaurants and other eating places	20	10.1	0.55×Fewer than typical	200	$17,565	5
Specialty trade contractors	20	10.1	0.65×Fewer than typical	140	$51,786	105
Gasoline stations	15	7.6	2.34×More than typical	54	$25,000	—
Limited-service restaurants	15	7.6	0.95×About typical	162	$17,870	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	10	5.1	1.00×About typical	45	$38,867	60
Building equipment contractors	10	5.1	0.84×About typical	106	$54,943	18
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	9	4.6	1.12×Too few to compare	24	$28,292	19
Grocery and convenience stores	9	4.6	1.53×Too few to compare	66	$26,015	9
General merchandise stores	8	4	2.29×Too few to compare	293	$26,334	10
Offices of physicians	8	4	0.62×Too few to compare	70	$41,471	8

Rank places for an industry Open Dodge County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,777 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 $6,879 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Eastman, Georgia: $1.23 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $6,879; −73% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.23; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 3.3%; 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$6,879100%

Top recipients

MGB ASSOCIATED SERVICES INC$6,879100.0%

Spending by fiscal year

28.3KFY2017
40.5KFY2018
20.1KFY2019
17.4KFY2020
11.9KFY2021
20.6KFY2022
15.3KFY2023
16.8KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonferrous metal (except aluminum) production and processing · 3314$3,83056%
Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing · 3311$1,42721%
Alumina and aluminum production and processing · 3313$5347.8%
Architectural and structural metals manufacturing · 3323$5007.3%
Steel product manufacturing from purchased steel · 3312$2934.3%
Support activities for air transportation · 4881$228

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

Eastman, Georgia's figures are part of those of Dodge County, GA ($290.4K 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: Eastman is mostly in Dodge County.

See federal money in Dodge 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.

Eastman, 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.

Dodge County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Dodge 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
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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