City · Morgan County, Georgia

Madison, Georgia

Madison is a city in Morgan County, Georgia, part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area. It has 4,864 residents. Madison, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 33 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,430 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #116 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), voter turnout (high) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on income inequality (Gini index) (high), access to exercise opportunities (low) and mental health providers (low).

33Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,430 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #116 of 386 in GA
Population: 4,864 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 548.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 1349196

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety13#13,674/15,637
Economy50#7,827/15,631
Housing20#11,990/14,977
Health62#5,974/15,609
Healthcare23#11,992/15,650
Environment26#11,429/15,453
Education77#3,548/15,649
Infrastructure56#6,836/15,650
Community34#10,395/15,651
Leisure & amenities50#7,883/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Madison, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Morgan 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 · high9.9%
100/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMorgan County value
Voter turnout · high82.3%
98/100Georgia 67.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMorgan County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low103 min
95/100Georgia 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMorgan County value
Public EV charging ports · high15.4 /10k
91/100Georgia 6.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyMorgan County value
Child care cost burden · low21.5%
90/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value
Depression · low19.1%
87/100Georgia 19.3%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.596
1/100Georgia 0.477United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Access to exercise opportunities · low29.1%
2/100Georgia 74.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value
Mental health providers · low46 /100k
5/100Georgia 201 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value
Loneliness · high38.6%
6/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Traffic deaths · high27.5 /100k
9/100Georgia 15.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataMorgan County value
Grocery stores · low0.9 /10k
10/100Georgia 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorgan County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
4,085 (2015-2019) → 4,864 (2020-2024)
+19%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
26.7% (2015-2019) → 55.4% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
17.6% (2015-2019) → 40.2% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
25.7% (2015-2019) → 45.1% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.2% (2015-2019) → 89.4% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
5.4 /1k (2021) → 2.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−55%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k

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, Madison, Georgia improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 6 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

Bachelor's++19 points25.7% → 45.1%
Broadband+13 points76.2% → 89.4%

Declined3

Rent / income+23 points17.6% → 40.2%
Inequality+0.1470.450 → 0.596
Rent burden+29 points26.7% → 55.4%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Madison, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.4 min2015-2019	17.7 min2020-2024	−4.7 min	Within the margin of error	89%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.7%2015-2019	45.1%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	99%
Broadband subscriptions	76.2%2015-2019	89.4%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	74%
Effective property tax rate	1.06%2015-2019	0.88%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	54%
High school diploma or higher	87.8%2015-2019	92.7%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Home price to income ratio	3.7×2015-2019	5.6×2020-2024	+1.9×	Within the margin of error	5%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4502015-2019	0.5962020-2024	+0.147	Declined	1%
Median household income	$67,2502015-2019	$61,5102020-2024	−8.5%	Within the margin of error	3%
Rent as share of income	17.6%2015-2019	40.2%2020-2024	+23 points	Declined	2%
Rent-burdened households	26.7%2015-2019	55.4%2020-2024	+29 points	Declined	3%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.2%2015-2019	12.3%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 Madison, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Madison, 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, Madison, Georgia itself moved −15 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

4,864 residents (±34)

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

2,253 households (±244)

Madison, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k24%†542
$25k–50k15%†327
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,253 households (±244)

Madison, Georgia
Georgia share

Own54%1,208
Rent46%1,045

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

2,155 workers (±291)

Madison, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone76%1,631
Carpool10%†223
Public transit0.7%†16

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 Morgan County, the county holding most of Madison's residents.

Morgan County has 573 employer establishments, 266 for every 10,000 residents (1.07× the US rate of 248; 1.13× Georgia's), with 6,763 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,224. The Census Bureau also counts 2,653 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 573; 2,653 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 266; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 6,763
Average annual pay: $45,224; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	54	25.1	1.62×More than typical	299	$61,127	269
Restaurants and other eating places	46	21.4	1.16×About typical	952	$19,523	12
Lessors of real estate	30	13.9	1.13×About typical	55	$68,364	278
Ambulatory health care services	29	13.5	0.65×Fewer than typical	175	$51,789	72
Building equipment contractors	26	12.1	2.01×More than typical	112	$62,054	46
Construction of buildings	25	11.6	1.54×More than typical	78	$72,090	119
Limited-service restaurants	24	11.2	1.39×More than typical	434	$18,733	4
Religious organizations	24	11.2	2.01×More than typical	155	$19,568	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	20	9.3	1.38×More than typical	67	$46,269	258
Full-service restaurants	19	8.8	1.15×About typical	507	$20,215	5
Landscaping services	17	7.9	2.25×More than typical	49	$45,102	118
Real estate agents and brokers	15	7	1.43×More than typical	15	$55,267	87

Rank places for an industry Open Morgan County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 21,523 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 -$33.8K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Madison, Georgia: -$6.96 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$33.8K
Per resident: -$6.96; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

1.1KFY2017
22.3KFY2018
14.6KFY2019
28KFY2020
28.1KFY2021
38.4KFY2022
19.7KFY2023
14.2KFY2024

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

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

See federal money in Morgan 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.

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

House

Mike CollinsR-GA-10 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.1%

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.

Morgan County48100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA57

Other cities and towns in Morgan 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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