Census-designated place · Hart County, Georgia

Reed Creek, Georgia

Reed Creek is a census-designated place in Hart County, Georgia. It has 3,151 residents. Reed Creek, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 22 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,152 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #169 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), unemployment rate (low) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on mental health providers (low), primary care shortage (high) and loneliness (high).

22Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,152 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #169 of 386 in GA
Population: 3,151 (2020-2024)
Land area: 24 mi²
Density: 132.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 1364288

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 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.

Safety38#9,712/15,637
Economy58#6,595/15,631
Housing27#10,944/14,977
Health41#9,274/15,609
Healthcare8#14,420/15,650
Environment54#7,046/15,453
Education41#9,165/15,649
Infrastructure28#11,236/15,650
Community18#12,890/15,651
Leisure & amenities23#12,119/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Reed Creek, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Hart 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 · high7.6%
99/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataHart County value
Unemployment rate · low0.9%
93/100Georgia 3.4%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Effective property tax rate · low0.51%
87/100Georgia 0.79%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHart County value
Comfortable days · high29.9%
78/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHart County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Georgia 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHart County value

Weaknesses

Mental health providers · low25 /100k
1/100Georgia 201 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHart County value
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationHart County value
Loneliness · high36.3%
12/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.3 /10k
12/100Georgia 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHart County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low51.2%
12/100Georgia 74.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHart County value
Reading scores · low2.77
14/100Georgia 2.97United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHart County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,155 (2015-2019) → 3,151 (2020-2024)
+46%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 46.6% (2020-2024)
+47 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeWorsening
27.0 min (2015-2019) → 46.1 min (2020-2024)
+71%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.6% (2015-2019) → 88.4% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateImproving
12.3% (2015-2019) → 0.9% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
18.9% (2015-2019) → 9.1% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Reed Creek, Georgia improved on 1 of 9 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.

Improved1

Broadband+12 points76.6% → 88.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Reed Creek, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.0 min2015-2019	46.1 min2020-2024	+19.1 min	Within the margin of error	0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	31.1%2015-2019	40.9%2020-2024	+9.8 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Broadband subscriptions	76.6%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	68%
Effective property tax rate	0.65%2015-2019	0.51%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
High school diploma or higher	91.8%2015-2019	94.7%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Home price to income ratio	4.5×2015-2019	4.5×2020-2024	−0.0×	Within the margin of error	79%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4922015-2019	0.4782020-2024	−0.014	Within the margin of error	63%
Median household income	$63,1672015-2019	$76,9732020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	37%
Poverty rate	11.5%2015-2019	9.4%2020-2024	−2.1 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 Reed Creek, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Reed Creek, 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, Reed Creek, Georgia itself moved −0.3 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

3,151 residents (±496)

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

1,567 households (±216)

Reed Creek, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k17%†261
$25k–50k8.3%†130
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,567 households (±216)

Reed Creek, Georgia
Georgia share

Own94%1,476
Rent5.8%†91

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+6.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,475 workers (±304)

Reed Creek, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone74%1,096
Carpool2.0%†30
Public transit0.8%†

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 Hart County, the county holding most of Reed Creek's residents.

Hart County has 491 employer establishments, 178 for every 10,000 residents (0.72× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Georgia's), with 6,168 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,878. The Census Bureau also counts 2,448 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 491; 2,448 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 178; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 6,168
Average annual pay: $41,878; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	45	16.3	1.06×About typical	223	$56,471	196
Restaurants and other eating places	39	14.2	0.77×Fewer than typical	716	$18,466	9
Religious organizations	30	10.9	1.96×More than typical	166	$18,355	—
Ambulatory health care services	23	8.4	0.40×Fewer than typical	222	$73,887	82
Building equipment contractors	22	8	1.33×More than typical	137	$63,080	35
Lessors of real estate	19	6.9	0.56×Fewer than typical	62	$31,581	190
Limited-service restaurants	18	6.5	0.82×About typical	395	$18,982	—
Gasoline stations	17	6.2	1.90×More than typical	53	$27,189	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	17	6.2	0.92×About typical	76	$49,395	249
Construction of buildings	16	5.8	0.77×Fewer than typical	31	$39,226	143
Full-service restaurants	16	5.8	0.76×Fewer than typical	269	$18,558	5
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	14	5.1	1.54×More than typical	110	$62,555	19

Rank places for an industry Open Hart County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 27,533 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 $3.3M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Reed Creek, Georgia: $1,040 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $3.3M; +83% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1,040; US $1,995
Sole-source: 57%; 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

Department of the Army$3.3M99.7%
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$7,1010.2%
Department of the Navy$3,5000.1%

Top recipients

T1 CONSTRUCTION LLC$1.9M57%
R & D MAINTENANCE SERVICES INC$694.6K21%
FABRITEX, INC.$632.8K19%
GE RENEWABLES US LLC$51.8K1.6%
ECHO81 LLC$12.3K0.4%
WILLIAM H CURRAN

Spending by fiscal year

1.2MFY2017
1.8MFY2018
2.7MFY2019
4.8MFY2020
2.1MFY2021
2.2MFY2022
2MFY2023
3M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$1.9M59%
Facilities support services · 5612$694.6K21%
Architectural and structural metals manufacturing · 3323$632.8K19%
RV parks and recreational camps · 7212$13.5K0.4%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$7,1010.2%
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing · 5324

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Reed Creek, Georgia, so they do not add up across cities.

Reed Creek, Georgia's figures are part of those of Hart County, GA ($16.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 20% of that total.

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

See federal money in Hart 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.

Reed Creek, 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.

Hart County24100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Hart 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
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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