City · Effingham County, Georgia

Rincon, Georgia

Rincon is a city in Effingham County, Georgia, part of the Savannah, GA metro area. It has 11,332 residents. Rincon, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 28 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,323 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #143 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), job growth (high) and violent crime rate (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and public EV charging ports (low).

28Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,323 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #143 of 386 in GA
Population: 11,332 (2020-2024)
Land area: 10 mi²
Density: 1,162.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 1365296

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety67#5,187/15,637
Economy52#7,460/15,631
Housing62#5,621/14,977
Health45#8,602/15,609
Healthcare22#12,182/15,650
Environment15#13,084/15,453
Education67#5,112/15,649
Infrastructure13#13,568/15,650
Community19#12,620/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,511/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Rincon, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Effingham 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 · low17.7%
98/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value
Job growth · high4.7%
97/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataEffingham County value
Violent crime rate · low60 /100k
95/100Georgia 297 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationEffingham County value
Property crime rate · low404 /100k
93/100Georgia 1,409 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationEffingham County value
Comfortable days · high32.5%
89/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationEffingham County value
Reading scores · high3.29
86/100Georgia 2.97United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low17 /100k
3/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.1 /10k
3/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEffingham County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Georgia 6.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyEffingham County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.6 /10k
4/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEffingham County value
Drought exposure · high91%
6/100Georgia 73%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAEffingham County value
Grocery stores · low0.8 /10k
8/100Georgia 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEffingham County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
10,027 (2015-2019) → 11,332 (2020-2024)
+13%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
48.3% (2015-2019) → 41.5% (2020-2024)
−6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+33%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Unemployment rateWorsening
3.7% (2015-2019) → 9.5% (2020-2024)
+5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
12.0% (2015-2019) → 8.3% (2020-2024)
−3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$64,625 (2015-2019) → $74,417 (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Rincon, Georgia improved on 0 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 12 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Unemployment+5.8 points3.7% → 9.5%
Price / income+0.8×2.5× → 3.4×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Rincon, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.1 min2015-2019	28.7 min2020-2024	−0.3 min	Within the margin of error	52%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.8%2015-2019	25.2%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Broadband subscriptions	83.0%2015-2019	86.0%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Child poverty rate	12.0%2015-2019	8.3%2020-2024	−3.7 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Effective property tax rate	0.99%2015-2019	0.77%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	62%
High school diploma or higher	88.6%2015-2019	91.5%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.8×	Declined	29%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4172015-2019	0.4342020-2024	+0.017	Within the margin of error	36%
Median household income	$64,6252015-2019	$74,4172020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	24%
Poverty rate	11.0%2015-2019	9.0%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Rent as share of income	28.8%2015-2019	27.3%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Rent-burdened households	48.3%2015-2019	41.5%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%
Unemployment rate	3.7%2015-2019	9.5%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Declined	3%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.7%2015-2019	7.9%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	67%

“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 Rincon, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Rincon, 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, Rincon, Georgia itself moved −1.8 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

11,332 residents (±32)

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

4,376 households (±299)

Rincon, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k12%†533
$25k–50k25%†1,094
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,376 households (±299)

Rincon, Georgia
Georgia share

Own61%2,674
Rent39%1,702

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+10.0 points).

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

5,188 workers (±556)

Rincon, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone81%4,181
Carpool10%†542
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 Savannah, 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 Effingham County, the county holding most of Rincon's residents.

Effingham County has 987 employer establishments, 138 for every 10,000 residents (0.56× the US rate of 248; 0.58× Georgia's), with 10,876 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,076. The Census Bureau also counts 5,867 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 987; 5,867 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 138; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 10,876
Average annual pay: $50,076; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	103	14.4	0.93×About typical	807	$58,005	440
Restaurants and other eating places	73	10.2	0.56×Fewer than typical	1,078	$19,815	18
Ambulatory health care services	61	8.5	0.41×Fewer than typical	594	$74,928	179
Truck transportation	53	7.4	1.46×More than typical	305	$45,898	371
Religious organizations	49	6.8	1.23×About typical	233	$25,021	—
Building equipment contractors	45	6.3	1.04×About typical	396	$61,295	109
Limited-service restaurants	43	6	0.75×Fewer than typical	657	$19,688	7
Services to buildings and dwellings	42	5.9	0.87×About typical	389	$24,635	537
Construction of buildings	36	5	0.67×Fewer than typical	102	$51,833	219
Lessors of real estate	33	4.6	0.37×Fewer than typical	48	$48,021	376
Gasoline stations	32	4.5	1.38×More than typical	229	$25,179	—
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	31	4.3	1.31×More than typical	342	$62,149	56

Rank places for an industry Open Effingham County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 71,573 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 -$19K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Rincon, Georgia: -$1.68 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$19K; −152% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$1.68; 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

INSURANCE AUTO AUCTIONS, INC.-$19K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

86.8KFY2017
-1KFY2018
0FY2019
-51.3KFY2020
3.5KFY2021
737.8KFY2023
22.6KFY2024
36.8KFY2025
-19K

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Effingham 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.

Rincon, Georgia is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Effingham County54100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Savannah, GA64

Other cities and towns in Effingham 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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