City · Monroe County, Georgia

Forsyth, Georgia

Forsyth is a city in Monroe County, Georgia, part of the Macon-Bibb County, GA metro area. It has 4,642 residents. Forsyth, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,164 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #137 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), job growth (high) and voter turnout (high). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), primary care shortage (high) and dentists (low).

29Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,164 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #137 of 386 in GA
Population: 4,642 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 515.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1330732

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety51#7,736/15,637
Economy43#8,912/15,631
Housing58#6,299/14,977
Health28#11,225/15,609
Healthcare24#11,926/15,650
Environment55#6,969/15,453
Education61#6,084/15,649
Infrastructure14#13,448/15,650
Community34#10,256/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#15,070/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Child care cost burden · low14.4%
100/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonroe County value
Job growth · high3.1%
94/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMonroe County value
Voter turnout · high76.9%
90/100Georgia 67.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMonroe County value
Property crime rate · low498 /100k
90/100Georgia 1,409 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMonroe County value
Violent crime rate · low87 /100k
89/100Georgia 297 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMonroe County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonroe County value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high20.0
1/100Georgia 9.6United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMonroe County value
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMonroe County value
Dentists · low16 /100k
3/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonroe County value
Loneliness · high39.7%
4/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Mental health providers · low41 /100k
4/100Georgia 201 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonroe County value
Pharmacies · low0.6 /10k
5/100Georgia 1.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMonroe County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
4,077 (2015-2019) → 4,642 (2020-2024)
+14%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$32,173 (2015-2019) → $73,250 (2020-2024)
+128%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
44.3% (2015-2019) → 18.8% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
66.7% (2015-2019) → 89.4% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
79.7% (2015-2019) → 91.4% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
34.8% (2015-2019) → 43.3% (2020-2024)
+8.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Forsyth, Georgia improved on 3 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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

Household income+128%$32,173 → $73,250
Inequality−0.2070.613 → 0.406
Broadband+23 points66.7% → 89.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Forsyth, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.9 min2015-2019	25.1 min2020-2024	+0.2 min	Within the margin of error	45%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.0%2015-2019	27.5%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Broadband subscriptions	66.7%2015-2019	89.4%2020-2024	+23 points	Improved	93%
Child poverty rate	34.8%2015-2019	43.3%2020-2024	+8.5 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Effective property tax rate	0.85%2015-2019	0.82%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	22%
High school diploma or higher	79.7%2015-2019	91.4%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Home price to income ratio	4.4×2015-2019	3.7×2020-2024	−0.6×	Within the margin of error	95%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.6132015-2019	0.4062020-2024	−0.207	Improved	100%
Median household income	$32,1732015-2019	$73,2502020-2024	+128%	Improved	99%
Poverty rate	27.0%2015-2019	21.5%2020-2024	−5.5 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.1%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	−6.8 points	Within the margin of error	88%

“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 Forsyth, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Forsyth, 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, Forsyth, Georgia itself moved +22.6 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

4,642 residents (±17)

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

1,852 households (±200)

Forsyth, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k12%†224
$25k–50k21%†394
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,852 households (±200)

Forsyth, Georgia
Georgia share

Own57%1,060
Rent43%792

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,028 workers (±317)

Forsyth, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone82%1,664
Carpool12%†236
Public transit0.0%0

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 Macon-Bibb County, 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 Monroe County, the county holding most of Forsyth's residents.

Monroe County has 604 employer establishments, 197 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Georgia's), with 6,750 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,680. The Census Bureau also counts 2,928 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 604; 2,928 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 197; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 6,750
Average annual pay: $46,680; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	46	15	0.72×Fewer than typical	291	$67,292	137
Specialty trade contractors	45	14.7	0.95×About typical	296	$52,378	244
Restaurants and other eating places	29	9.5	0.52×Fewer than typical	628	$19,182	13
Lessors of real estate	27	8.8	0.72×Fewer than typical	53	$37,472	241
Truck transportation	27	8.8	1.75×More than typical	158	$45,209	82
Services to buildings and dwellings	25	8.2	1.21×About typical	420	$45,321	241
Automotive repair and maintenance	22	7.2	1.43×More than typical	122	$45,164	64
Construction of buildings	22	7.2	0.95×About typical	94	$60,766	106
Limited-service restaurants	21	6.9	0.86×About typical	445	$19,744	8
Religious organizations	21	6.9	1.24×About typical	92	$23,217	—
Building equipment contractors	17	5.6	0.92×About typical	132	$52,644	53
Gasoline stations	16	5.2	1.61×More than typical	74	$30,419	—

Rank places for an industry Open Monroe County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 30,598 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Forsyth, Georgia: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

SPANISH SOLUTIONS, LLC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

1KFY2017
1.9KFY2018
0FY2019
5.6KFY2020
537.6FY2021
820.9FY2022
-74FY2023
1.4KFY2024
19.7K

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Monroe 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.

Forsyth, 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.

Monroe County54100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Macon-Bibb County, GA12

Other cities and towns in Monroe 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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