City · Troup County, Georgia

LaGrange, Georgia

LaGrange is a city in Troup County, Georgia, part of the LaGrange, GA-AL metro area. It has 32,078 residents. LaGrange, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 8 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,470 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #265 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), new homes permitted (high) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on income inequality (Gini index) (high), firearm deaths (high) and child poverty rate (high).

8Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,470 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #265 of 386 in GA
Population: 32,078 (2020-2024)
Land area: 42 mi²
Density: 756.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 1344340

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.

Safety3#15,211/15,637
Economy7#14,503/15,631
Housing21#11,848/14,977
Health11#13,838/15,609
Healthcare28#11,249/15,650
Environment70#4,689/15,453
Education21#12,316/15,649
Infrastructure15#13,225/15,650
Community13#13,588/15,651
Leisure & amenities36#9,984/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Georgia 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesTroup County value
New homes permitted · high18.1 /1k
95/100Georgia 5.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Grocery stores · high2.5 /10k
87/100Georgia 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTroup County value
Natural hazard risk · low8.3
86/100Georgia 24.82025Federal Emergency Management AgencyTroup County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTroup County value
Dental care shortage · low0.0
84/100Georgia 5.9United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationTroup County value

Weaknesses

Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.557
1/100Georgia 0.477United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Firearm deaths · high28.3 /100k
3/100Georgia 16.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataTroup County value
Child poverty rate · high31.4%
5/100Georgia 16.9%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Primary care shortage · high18.0
5/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationTroup County value
Loneliness · high39.0%
6/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Homicide rate · high11.1 /100k
7/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataTroup County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
30,400 (2015-2019) → 32,078 (2020-2024)
+5.5%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
4.4 /1k (2021) → 18.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+308%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.9% (2015-2019) → 86.1% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
18.5% (2015-2019) → 27.9% (2020-2024)
+9.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
38.6% (2015-2019) → 31.4% (2020-2024)
−7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.7× (2015-2019) → 4.9× (2020-2024)
+36%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, LaGrange, Georgia improved on 4 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved4

Bachelor's++9.5 points18.5% → 27.9%
Poverty−5.9 points28.8% → 22.9%
Broadband+16 points69.9% → 86.1%
Household income+26%$34,808 → $43,708

Declined1

Price / income+1.3×3.7× → 4.9×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of LaGrange, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	22.0 min2020-2024	+1.2 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.5%2015-2019	27.9%2020-2024	+9.5 points	Improved	89%
Broadband subscriptions	69.9%2015-2019	86.1%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	83%
Child poverty rate	38.6%2015-2019	31.4%2020-2024	−7.2 points	Within the margin of error	76%
Effective property tax rate	0.87%2015-2019	0.95%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
High school diploma or higher	80.4%2015-2019	87.1%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Home price to income ratio	3.7×2015-2019	4.9×2020-2024	+1.3×	Declined	13%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5012015-2019	0.5572020-2024	+0.056	Within the margin of error	14%
Median household income	$34,8082015-2019	$43,7082020-2024	+26%	Improved	45%
Poverty rate	28.8%2015-2019	22.9%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Improved	84%
Rent as share of income	33.2%2015-2019	33.9%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Rent-burdened households	56.3%2015-2019	58.7%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Unemployment rate	6.7%2015-2019	9.0%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.4%2015-2019	13.3%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	69%

“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 LaGrange, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of LaGrange, 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, LaGrange, Georgia itself moved +0 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

32,078 residents (±49)

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

12,993 households (±485)

LaGrange, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k29%3,739
$25k–50k27%3,455
$50k–75k14%1,780

Homes

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

Owners and renters

12,993 households (±485)

LaGrange, Georgia
Georgia share

Own40%5,156
Rent60%7,837

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

13,602 workers (±849)

LaGrange, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone71%9,643
Carpool12%1,649
Public transit0.0%†2

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 LaGrange, GA-AL

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 Troup County, the county holding most of LaGrange's residents.

Troup County has 1,580 employer establishments, 221 for every 10,000 residents (0.89× the US rate of 248; 0.94× Georgia's), with 35,642 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,599. The Census Bureau also counts 7,009 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,580; 7,009 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 221; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 35,642
Average annual pay: $55,599; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	129	18.1	0.98×About typical	2,468	$18,640	34
Ambulatory health care services	124	17.4	0.83×About typical	1,373	$75,251	306
Specialty trade contractors	93	13	0.84×About typical	1,053	$65,098	457
Religious organizations	72	10.1	1.82×More than typical	315	$22,006	—
Limited-service restaurants	68	9.5	1.19×About typical	1,582	$15,757	11
Lessors of real estate	65	9.1	0.74×Fewer than typical	142	$44,268	415
Building equipment contractors	55	7.7	1.28×More than typical	808	$66,277	109
Gasoline stations	55	7.7	2.38×More than typical	247	$31,522	6
Full-service restaurants	52	7.3	0.95×About typical	812	$23,680	9
Grocery and convenience stores	49	6.9	2.31×More than typical	740	$28,358	21
Offices of physicians	42	5.9	0.91×About typical	638	$110,447	25
Construction of buildings	34	4.8	0.63×Fewer than typical	700	$91,430	216

Rank places for an industry Open Troup County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 71,376 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 $69.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in LaGrange, Georgia: $2.16 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $69.2K
Per resident: $2.16; US $1,994
Sole-source: 56%; US 30%
Single offer: 35%; 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

Department of the Army$42.3K61%
Defense Logistics Agency$24.3K35%
Department of Veterans Affairs$2,4093.5%
Department of State$2630.4%

Top recipients

DIVERSE POWER INCORPORATED, AN ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION$37.9K55%
NEW VENTURES ENTERPRISES, INC.$24.3K35%
MICHAEL LEE ALEXANDER$3,7135.4%
FLOORING CONTRACTING SERVICES LLC$2,4093.5%
CITY OF LAGRANGE$7491.1%

Spending by fiscal year

250.1KFY2017
394KFY2018
192.7KFY2019
110.3KFY2020
100KFY2021
338.7KFY2022
74.9KFY2023
1.5M

Top industries (NAICS)

Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$37.9K55%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$24.3K35%
RV parks and recreational camps · 7212$3,7135.4%
Textile furnishings mills · 3141$2,6713.9%
Water, sewage and other systems · 2213$7491.1%

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

LaGrange, Georgia's figures are part of those of Troup County, GA ($2.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in Troup 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.

LaGrange, 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.

Troup County27100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

LaGrange, GA-AL6

Other cities and towns in Troup 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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