City · Jeff Davis County, Georgia

Hazlehurst, Georgia

Hazlehurst is a city in Jeff Davis County, Georgia. It has 4,092 residents. Hazlehurst, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,499 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #366 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), job growth (high) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), income inequality (Gini index) (high) and dental care shortage (high).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,499 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #366 of 386 in GA
Population: 4,092 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 864.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1337564

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.

Safety20#12,512/15,637
Economy7#14,528/15,631
Housing40#8,990/14,977
Health7#14,440/15,609
Healthcare8#14,394/15,650
Environment18#12,632/15,453
Education13#13,631/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,977/15,650
Community3#15,231/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,549/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hazlehurst, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jeff Davis 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 StatisticsJeff Davis County value
Job growth · high4.2%
97/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataJeff Davis County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low108 min
93/100Georgia 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJeff Davis County value
Comfortable days · high33.2%
90/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationJeff Davis County value
Average commute time · low15.4 min
89/100Georgia 28.3 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Child care cost burden · low24.4%
77/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJeff Davis County value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low7 /100k
1/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJeff Davis County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.562
1/100Georgia 0.477United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Dental care shortage · high20.0
1/100Georgia 5.9United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationJeff Davis County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.7 /10k
2/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJeff Davis County value
Food environment index · low5.1
2/100Georgia 6.2United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJeff Davis County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high28.3%
3/100Georgia 14.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

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

New homes permittedImproving
0.5 /1k (2021) → 2.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+296%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
60.2% (2015-2019) → 82.7% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateImproving
18.9% (2015-2019) → 6.3% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
24.8% (2015-2019) → 35.9% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
29.7% (2015-2019) → 40.4% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
7.5% (2015-2019) → 16.3% (2020-2024)
+8.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Hazlehurst, Georgia improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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

Broadband+22 points60.2% → 82.7%
Bachelor's++8.8 points7.5% → 16.3%

Declined1

Inequality+0.1310.431 → 0.562

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Hazlehurst, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.2 min2015-2019	15.4 min2020-2024	−2.8 min	Within the margin of error	78%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.5%2015-2019	16.3%2020-2024	+8.8 points	Improved	87%
Broadband subscriptions	60.2%2015-2019	82.7%2020-2024	+22 points	Improved	93%
Child poverty rate	24.8%2015-2019	35.9%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Effective property tax rate	0.91%2015-2019	0.88%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	20%
High school diploma or higher	76.1%2015-2019	72.2%2020-2024	−3.9 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Home price to income ratio	2.7×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+1.1×	Within the margin of error	18%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4312015-2019	0.5622020-2024	+0.131	Declined	2%
Median household income	$29,0062015-2019	$38,6162020-2024	+33%	Within the margin of error	62%
Poverty rate	21.1%2015-2019	28.2%2020-2024	+7.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.2%2015-2019	28.1%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Rent-burdened households	29.7%2015-2019	40.4%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	22.4%2015-2019	28.3%2020-2024	+5.9 points	Within the margin of error	8%

“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 Hazlehurst, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hazlehurst, 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, Hazlehurst, Georgia itself moved −7.6 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

4,092 residents (±16)

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

1,307 households (±216)

Hazlehurst, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k39%†514
$25k–50k19%†254
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,307 households (±216)

Hazlehurst, Georgia
Georgia share

Own51%663
Rent49%644

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

1,345 workers (±211)

Hazlehurst, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone78%1,045
Carpool19%†256
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 Jeff Davis County, the county holding most of Hazlehurst's residents.

Jeff Davis County has 260 employer establishments, 174 for every 10,000 residents (0.70× the US rate of 248; 0.74× Georgia's), with 3,834 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,594. The Census Bureau also counts 1,169 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 260; 1,169 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 174; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 3,834
Average annual pay: $45,594; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	25	16.7	0.91×About typical	462	$15,558	7
Ambulatory health care services	14	9.4	0.45×Fewer than typical	96	$60,563	38
Religious organizations	13	8.7	1.57×More than typical	71	$20,085	—
Limited-service restaurants	12	8	1.00×About typical	289	$14,903	—
Gasoline stations	10	6.7	2.06×More than typical	53	$25,792	—
Specialty trade contractors	9	6	0.39×Too few to compare	141	$48,085	118
Truck transportation	9	6	1.19×Too few to compare	87	$72,310	51
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	7	4.7	2.68×Too few to compare	76	$38,895	6
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	7	4.7	2.93×Too few to compare	100	$47,450	—
Full-service restaurants	7	4.7	0.61×Too few to compare	153	$16,510	4
General merchandise stores	6	4	2.27×Too few to compare	207	$31,700	9
Banks and credit unions	5	3.3	1.03×Too few to compare	56	$46,679	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 14,955 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 $94.62 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hazlehurst, Georgia: $0.02 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $94.62; −97% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.02; 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

Federal Emergency Management Agency$94.62100%

Top recipients

STAGGER LEE MUSIC PARK LLC$94.62100%

Spending by fiscal year

732.6FY2017
3.1KFY2025
94.6FY2026

What was bought

Construction & real property$94.62100%

Top industries (NAICS)

RV parks and recreational camps · 7212$94.62100%

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

Hazlehurst, Georgia's figures are part of those of Jeff Davis County, GA ($5,400 in FY2026), never added to them: 1.8% of that total.

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

See federal money in Jeff Davis 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.

Hazlehurst, 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.

Jeff Davis County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Jeff Davis 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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