City · Pickens County, Georgia

Jasper, Georgia

Jasper is a city in Pickens County, Georgia, part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area. It has 4,630 residents. Jasper, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 28 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,253 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #141 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), job growth (high) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on distance to an emergency room (high), child poverty rate (high) and loneliness (high).

28Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,253 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #141 of 386 in GA
Population: 4,630 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 541.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1341932

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.

Safety69#4,778/15,637
Economy44#8,768/15,631
Housing30#10,429/14,977
Health26#11,504/15,609
Healthcare27#11,435/15,650
Environment75#3,909/15,453
Education26#11,545/15,649
Infrastructure36#10,016/15,650
Community22#12,283/15,651
Leisure & amenities16#13,136/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Jasper, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pickens 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 · low14.9%
100/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePickens County value
Job growth · high5.0%
98/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataPickens County value
Unemployment rate · low0.1%
96/100Georgia 3.4%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
New homes permitted · high20.7 /1k
96/100Georgia 5.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Property crime rate · low416 /100k
93/100Georgia 1,409 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figurePickens County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationPickens County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an emergency room · high17.3 mi
5/100Georgia 7.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPickens County value
Child poverty rate · high44.5%
7/100Georgia 16.9%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Loneliness · high38.3%
7/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Dentists · low25 /100k
7/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePickens County value
Poverty rate · high27.2%
9/100Georgia 12.8%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.9 /10k
9/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPickens County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,850 (2015-2019) → 4,630 (2020-2024)
+20%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
10.7% (2015-2019) → 44.5% (2020-2024)
+34 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
8.0% (2015-2019) → 27.2% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.5% (2015-2019) → 94.0% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
55.2% (2015-2019) → 62.3% (2020-2024)
+7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
4.0× (2015-2019) → 5.4× (2020-2024)
+34%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Jasper, Georgia improved on 1 of 13 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.

Improved1

Broadband+15 points78.5% → 94.0%

Declined1

Poverty+19 points8.0% → 27.2%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Jasper, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.3 min2015-2019	30.4 min2020-2024	+5.0 min	Within the margin of error	10%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.9%2015-2019	17.7%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Broadband subscriptions	78.5%2015-2019	94.0%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	81%
Effective property tax rate	0.95%2015-2019	0.56%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	83%
High school diploma or higher	79.7%2015-2019	84.9%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	4.0×2015-2019	5.4×2020-2024	+1.4×	Within the margin of error	11%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5622015-2019	0.4022020-2024	−0.161	Within the margin of error	99%
Median household income	$45,9172015-2019	$52,4422020-2024	+14%	Within the margin of error	22%
Poverty rate	8.0%2015-2019	27.2%2020-2024	+19 points	Declined	1%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	31.7%2015-2019	33.4%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Rent-burdened households	55.2%2015-2019	62.3%2020-2024	+7.1 points	Within the margin of error	31%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.5%2015-2019	19.1%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%

“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 Jasper, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Jasper, 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, Jasper, Georgia itself moved +5.6 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

4,630 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

1,694 households (±208)

Jasper, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k12%†209
$25k–50k35%†596
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,694 households (±208)

Jasper, Georgia
Georgia share

Own50%854
Rent50%840

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

1,912 workers (±230)

Jasper, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone69%1,322
Carpool16%†297
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 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 Pickens County, the county holding most of Jasper's residents.

Pickens County has 809 employer establishments, 225 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 0.95× Georgia's), with 7,790 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,395. The Census Bureau also counts 3,899 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 809; 3,899 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 225; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 7,790
Average annual pay: $52,395; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	67	18.6	0.89×About typical	602	$88,002	114
Specialty trade contractors	58	16.1	1.04×About typical	384	$65,219	442
Restaurants and other eating places	55	15.3	0.83×About typical	817	$22,197	14
Construction of buildings	36	10	1.32×More than typical	132	$79,250	216
Lessors of real estate	36	10	0.81×About typical	73	$51,274	382
Offices of physicians	35	9.7	1.50×More than typical	351	$109,687	14
Religious organizations	29	8.1	1.45×More than typical	130	$29,746	—
Building equipment contractors	26	7.2	1.20×About typical	139	$58,058	84
Full-service restaurants	25	6.9	0.90×About typical	353	$25,363	8
Limited-service restaurants	23	6.4	0.80×Fewer than typical	398	$20,729	3
Real estate agents and brokers	23	6.4	1.31×More than typical	42	$53,524	150
Management, scientific and technical consulting	22	6.1	0.91×About typical	30	$67,500	168

Rank places for an industry Open Pickens County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 35,977 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 $7,574 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Jasper, Georgia: $1.64 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $7,574
Per resident: $1.64; 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

U.S. Marshals Service$6,92791%
Department of the Army$6478.5%

Top recipients

ATNA LLC$6,92791%
AMICALOLA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION$6478.5%

Spending by fiscal year

14KFY2017
11.5KFY2018
56.9KFY2019
14KFY2020
36.2KFY2021
45.5KFY2022
22KFY2023
52.3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Computer systems design and related services · 5415$6,93792%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$6478.5%

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

Jasper, Georgia's figures are part of those of Pickens County, GA ($149.4K in FY2026), never added to them: 5.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Pickens 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.

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

House

Barry LoudermilkR-GA-11 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 5.9%

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.

Pickens County54100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA57

Other cities and towns in Pickens County

Largest first.

Talking Rock274

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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