City · Spalding County, Georgia

Griffin, Georgia

Griffin is a city in Spalding County, Georgia, part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area. It has 23,761 residents. Griffin, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,332 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #339 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on natural hazard risk (low), new business applications (high) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on primary care shortage (high), public libraries (low) and loneliness (high).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,332 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #339 of 386 in GA
Population: 23,761 (2020-2024)
Land area: 14 mi²
Density: 1,691.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1335324

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety8#14,395/15,637
Economy5#14,909/15,631
Housing10#13,487/14,977
Health14#13,473/15,609
Healthcare14#13,499/15,650
Environment61#6,081/15,453
Education5#14,882/15,649
Infrastructure17#12,946/15,650
Community4#14,978/15,651
Leisure & amenities19#12,737/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Natural hazard risk · low7.2
89/100Georgia 24.82025Federal Emergency Management AgencySpalding County value
New business applications · high19.1 /1k
87/100Georgia 22.5 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauSpalding County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSpalding County value
Depression · low20.2%
82/100Georgia 19.3%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Comfortable days · high30.7%
81/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSpalding County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Georgia 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencySpalding County value

Weaknesses

Primary care shortage · high21.0
1/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSpalding County value
Public libraries · low0.1 /10k
1/100Georgia 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesSpalding County value
Loneliness · high41.2%
3/100Georgia 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 InstituteSpalding County value
Reading scores · low2.54
3/100Georgia 2.97United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSpalding County value
Child poverty rate · high35.2%
4/100Georgia 16.9%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
61.4% (2015-2019) → 86.5% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.8× (2015-2019) → 5.1× (2020-2024)
+82%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
New homes permittedWorsening
3.2 /1k (2021) → 1.4 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−56%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
52.7% (2015-2019) → 59.3% (2020-2024)
+6.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
31.6% (2015-2019) → 37.9% (2020-2024)
+6.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
29.8% (2015-2019) → 35.2% (2020-2024)
+5.4 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, Griffin, Georgia improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 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

Broadband+25 points61.4% → 86.5%
Household income+18%$36,890 → $43,632

Declined2

Price / income+2.3×2.8× → 5.1×
Rent / income+6.3 points31.6% → 37.9%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Griffin, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.7 min2015-2019	22.2 min2020-2024	−3.5 min	Within the margin of error	83%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.5%2015-2019	15.9%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Broadband subscriptions	61.4%2015-2019	86.5%2020-2024	+25 points	Improved	95%
Child poverty rate	29.8%2015-2019	35.2%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Effective property tax rate	1.28%2015-2019	0.95%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	79%
High school diploma or higher	80.5%2015-2019	83.2%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	5.1×2020-2024	+2.3×	Declined	3%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4782015-2019	0.4882020-2024	+0.010	Within the margin of error	42%
Median household income	$36,8902015-2019	$43,6322020-2024	+18%	Improved	30%
Poverty rate	23.2%2015-2019	25.2%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Rent as share of income	31.6%2015-2019	37.9%2020-2024	+6.3 points	Declined	17%
Rent-burdened households	52.7%2015-2019	59.3%2020-2024	+6.6 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Unemployment rate	5.3%2015-2019	6.3%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.4%2015-2019	17.4%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“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 Griffin, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Griffin, 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, Griffin, Georgia itself moved −3.8 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

23,761 residents (±43)

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

9,538 households (±484)

Griffin, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k28%2,659
$25k–50k28%2,626
$50k–75k16%1,517

Homes

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

Owners and renters

9,538 households (±484)

Griffin, Georgia
Georgia share

Own38%3,582
Rent62%5,956

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

9,787 workers (±597)

Griffin, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone79%7,760
Carpool12%†1,190
Public transit0.0%†1

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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, 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 Spalding County, the county holding most of Griffin's residents.

Spalding County has 1,240 employer establishments, 177 for every 10,000 residents (0.71× the US rate of 248; 0.75× Georgia's), with 17,205 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,500. The Census Bureau also counts 6,870 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,240; 6,870 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 177; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 17,205
Average annual pay: $51,500; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	112	16	0.77×Fewer than typical	1,729	$64,216	281
Restaurants and other eating places	102	14.6	0.79×Fewer than typical	2,031	$18,174	36
Specialty trade contractors	79	11.3	0.73×Fewer than typical	611	$63,728	572
Limited-service restaurants	59	8.4	1.05×About typical	1,072	$15,933	9
Religious organizations	53	7.6	1.37×More than typical	323	$21,347	—
Lessors of real estate	46	6.6	0.53×Fewer than typical	107	$35,037	410
Gasoline stations	40	5.7	1.76×More than typical	168	$22,357	3
Offices of physicians	38	5.4	0.84×About typical	507	$107,361	17
Building equipment contractors	36	5.1	0.86×About typical	247	$64,623	137
Full-service restaurants	34	4.9	0.63×Fewer than typical	900	$20,648	8
Services to buildings and dwellings	34	4.9	0.72×Fewer than typical	158	$45,399	784
Construction of buildings	31	4.4	0.59×Fewer than typical	98	$43,908	295

Rank places for an industry Open Spalding County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 69,951 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 $10.9K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Griffin, Georgia: $0.46 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $10.9K; −61% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.46; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 28%; 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 Research Service$7,65970%
Forest Service$3,24130%

Top recipients

XION CONSTRUCTION COMPANY L.L.C.$4,64043%
VISTA SALES CONSULTING, LLC$3,24130%
ALPHA ROOFING SYSTEMS, LLC$2,10019%
CARDINAL STATE CONSTRUCTION LLC$1,30412%
SLEDGE TECH LLC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

20.3KFY2017
98.5KFY2018
327.2KFY2019
21.9KFY2020
68KFY2021
15.5KFY2022
103.1KFY2023
95.3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Building equipment contractors · 2382$4,64043%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$3,24130%
Foundation, structure, and building exterior contractors · 2381$2,10019%
Building finishing contractors · 2383$1,30412%

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

Griffin, Georgia's figures are part of those of Spalding County, GA ($206.3K in FY2026), never added to them: 5.3% of that total.

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

See federal money in Spalding 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.

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

House

Brian JackR-GA-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.0%

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.

Spalding County13100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA57

Other cities and towns in Spalding 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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