Town · Banks County, Georgia

Homer, Georgia

Homer is a town in Banks County, Georgia. It has 1,892 residents. Homer, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 24 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,839 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #155 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), child care cost burden (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on mental health providers (low), dentists (low) and primary care physicians (low).

24Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,839 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #155 of 386 in GA
Population: 1,892 (2020-2024)
Land area: 10 mi²
Density: 193.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1339720

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.

Safety48#8,117/15,637
Economy56#6,877/15,631
Housing56#6,538/14,977
Health25#11,665/15,609
Healthcare2#15,316/15,650
Environment62#5,923/15,453
Education35#10,143/15,649
Infrastructure17#12,987/15,650
Community21#12,395/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,404/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Job growth · high6.7%
99/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataBanks County value
Child care cost burden · low16.6%
99/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBanks County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBanks County value
New homes permitted · high13.2 /1k
92/100Georgia 5.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Comfortable days · high31.1%
83/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationBanks County value
Public EV charging ports · high9.4 /10k
80/100Georgia 6.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyBanks County value

Weaknesses

Mental health providers · low10 /100k
0/100Georgia 201 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBanks County value
Dentists · low5 /100k
0/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBanks County value
Primary care physicians · low16 /100k
2/100Georgia 67 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBanks County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low31.0%
2/100Georgia 74.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBanks County value
Pharmacies · low0.5 /10k
3/100Georgia 1.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBanks County value
Average weekly wage · low$896
5/100Georgia $1,404United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBanks County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,257 (2015-2019) → 1,892 (2020-2024)
+51%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.0% (2015-2019) → 19.2% (2020-2024)
−30 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
70.1% (2015-2019) → 88.5% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
30.8% (2015-2019) → 14.6% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
36.0 /1k (2021) → 13.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−63%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
High school diploma or higherImproving
77.7% (2015-2019) → 89.8% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Homer, Georgia improved on 3 of 11 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.

Improved3

Broadband+18 points70.1% → 88.5%
Bachelor's++8.6 points14.7% → 23.3%
Household income+48%$60,163 → $89,083

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Homer, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.1 min2015-2019	36.4 min2020-2024	+5.3 min	Within the margin of error	9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.7%2015-2019	23.3%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Improved	86%
Broadband subscriptions	70.1%2015-2019	88.5%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	87%
Effective property tax rate	0.75%2015-2019	0.69%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	26%
High school diploma or higher	77.7%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	38%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4192015-2019	0.4572020-2024	+0.038	Within the margin of error	22%
Median household income	$60,1632015-2019	$89,0832020-2024	+48%	Improved	83%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.7%2015-2019	23.2%2020-2024	−6.5 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.6%2015-2019	12.7%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	92%

“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 Homer, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Homer, 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, Homer, Georgia itself moved +8.2 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

1,892 residents (±442)

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

599 households (±130)

Homer, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k12%†71
$25k–50k14%†83
$50k–75k14%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

599 households (±130)

Homer, Georgia
Georgia share

Own73%437
Rent27%†162

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

† 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

840 workers (±192)

Homer, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone83%694
Carpool7.1%†60
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 Banks County, the county holding most of Homer's residents.

Banks County has 334 employer establishments, 167 for every 10,000 residents (0.67× the US rate of 248; 0.71× Georgia's), with 3,980 paid employees at an average annual pay of $36,262. The Census Bureau also counts 1,739 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 334; 1,739 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 167; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 3,980
Average annual pay: $36,262; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	37	18.5	1.01×About typical	805	$25,309	9
Specialty trade contractors	31	15.5	1.00×About typical	142	$65,197	219
Limited-service restaurants	21	10.5	1.31×More than typical	375	$22,565	5
Traveler accommodation	16	8	4.44×More than typical	196	$22,209	—
Building equipment contractors	15	7.5	1.25×About typical	61	$70,885	53
Religious organizations	15	7.5	1.36×More than typical	57	$23,018	—
Full-service restaurants	13	6.5	0.85×About typical	380	$28,871	3
Ambulatory health care services	12	6	0.29×Fewer than typical	116	$78,388	49
Gasoline stations	12	6	1.86×More than typical	144	$33,375	—
Construction of buildings	11	5.5	0.73×Fewer than typical	31	$50,355	103
Services to buildings and dwellings	10	5	0.74×Fewer than typical	354	$34,737	180
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	9	4.5	1.43×Too few to compare	45	$67,378	42

Rank places for an industry Open Banks County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,949 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Banks 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.

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

House

Andrew S. ClydeR-GA-9 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 4.6%

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.

Banks County30100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Banks County

Largest first.

Gillsville454

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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