City · Catoosa County, Georgia

Ringgold, Georgia

Ringgold is a city in Catoosa County, Georgia, part of the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro area. It has 3,435 residents. Ringgold, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 15 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,336 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #212 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), child care cost burden (low) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), average weekly wage (low) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high).

15Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,336 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #212 of 386 in GA
Population: 3,435 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 682.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 1365324

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#5,112/15,637
Economy21#12,304/15,631
Housing12#13,176/14,977
Health50#7,862/15,609
Healthcare33#10,544/15,650
Environment13#13,375/15,453
Education33#10,479/15,649
Infrastructure31#10,753/15,650
Community12#13,841/15,651
Leisure & amenities8#14,353/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Distance to an airport · low8 mi
97/100Georgia 42 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCatoosa County value
Child care cost burden · low21.1%
91/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCatoosa County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low118 min
88/100Georgia 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCatoosa County value
Pharmacies · high2.3 /10k
84/100Georgia 1.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCatoosa County value
Distance to an emergency room · low4.1 mi
78/100Georgia 7.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCatoosa County value
Property crime rate · low687 /100k
77/100Georgia 1,409 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCatoosa County value

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.1 /10k
1/100Georgia 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesCatoosa County value
Average weekly wage · low$904
6/100Georgia $1,404United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCatoosa County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.3 µg/m³
7/100Georgia 9.1 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCatoosa County value
Restaurants and bars · low4.6 /10k
7/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCatoosa County value
Median household income · low$42,583
8/100Georgia $79,912United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Dentists · low28 /100k
9/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCatoosa County value

Trends

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

Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.0× (2015-2019) → 5.7× (2020-2024)
+89%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
40.7% (2015-2019) → 58.3% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.4% (2015-2019) → 35.4% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.1% (2015-2019) → 87.0% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
22.3% (2015-2019) → 15.4% (2020-2024)
−6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateImproving
9.6% (2015-2019) → 4.8% (2020-2024)
−4.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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, Ringgold, Georgia improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Declined1

Price / income+2.7×3.0× → 5.7×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Ringgold, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.2 min2015-2019	22.0 min2020-2024	+0.7 min	Within the margin of error	39%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.3%2015-2019	17.9%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Broadband subscriptions	78.1%2015-2019	87.0%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Effective property tax rate	0.91%2015-2019	0.88%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	22%
High school diploma or higher	87.9%2015-2019	86.5%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	5.7×2020-2024	+2.7×	Declined	2%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4132015-2019	0.4582020-2024	+0.045	Within the margin of error	19%
Median household income	$45,2742015-2019	$42,5832020-2024	−5.9%	Within the margin of error	4%
Poverty rate	16.9%2015-2019	14.9%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.4%2015-2019	35.4%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Rent-burdened households	40.7%2015-2019	58.3%2020-2024	+18 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	22.3%2015-2019	15.4%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	92%

“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 Ringgold, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ringgold, 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, Ringgold, Georgia itself moved −23.3 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

3,435 residents (±15)

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

1,473 households (±180)

Ringgold, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k26%†386
$25k–50k30%†437
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,473 households (±180)

Ringgold, Georgia
Georgia share

Own48%713
Rent52%760

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

1,511 workers (±265)

Ringgold, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone86%1,304
Carpool8.3%†125
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 Chattanooga, TN-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 Catoosa County, the county holding most of Ringgold's residents.

Catoosa County has 1,044 employer establishments, 151 for every 10,000 residents (0.61× the US rate of 248; 0.64× Georgia's), with 13,316 paid employees at an average annual pay of $40,543. The Census Bureau also counts 5,276 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,044; 5,276 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 151; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 13,316
Average annual pay: $40,543; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	101	14.6	0.80×Fewer than typical	2,091	$19,659	21
Ambulatory health care services	88	12.7	0.61×Fewer than typical	896	$59,386	175
Specialty trade contractors	73	10.6	0.68×Fewer than typical	548	$53,283	477
Limited-service restaurants	58	8.4	1.05×About typical	1,137	$18,521	6
Religious organizations	45	6.5	1.17×About typical	299	$19,047	—
Building equipment contractors	43	6.2	1.03×About typical	430	$53,872	109
Gasoline stations	40	5.8	1.79×More than typical	253	$28,783	4
Automotive repair and maintenance	39	5.6	1.12×About typical	259	$49,633	100
Lessors of real estate	37	5.4	0.43×Fewer than typical	68	$46,647	335
Full-service restaurants	33	4.8	0.62×Fewer than typical	707	$22,216	10
Offices of other health practitioners	30	4.3	0.71×Fewer than typical	164	$44,585	85
Services to buildings and dwellings	30	4.3	0.64×Fewer than typical	154	$58,597	419

Rank places for an industry Open Catoosa County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 69,093 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 $150.5K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Ringgold, Georgia: $43.82 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $150.5K; +3,618% vs FY2025
Per resident: $43.82; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$150.5K100%

Top recipients

T & T PRODUCE, INC$150.5K100.0%

Spending by fiscal year

15.4KFY2017
6.4KFY2018
4.6KFY2019
233.5KFY2020
4.1KFY2021
3.7KFY2022
649.2FY2023
1.8KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other food manufacturing · 3119$150.5K100.0%

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

Ringgold, Georgia's figures are part of those of Catoosa County, GA ($5M in FY2026), never added to them: 3.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Catoosa 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.

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

House

Clay FullerR-GA-14 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%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.

Catoosa County47100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Chattanooga, TN-GA52

Other cities and towns in Catoosa 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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