City · Treutlen County, Georgia

Soperton, Georgia

Soperton is a city in Treutlen County, Georgia. It has 2,908 residents. Soperton, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,295 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #335 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), social associations (high) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on food environment index (low), restaurants and bars (low) and loneliness (high).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,295 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #335 of 386 in GA
Population: 2,908 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 660.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1371772

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.

Safety23#11,977/15,637
Economy4#14,989/15,631
Housing57#6,441/14,977
Health3#15,103/15,609
Healthcare6#14,663/15,650
Environment26#11,435/15,453
Education14#13,482/15,649
Infrastructure0#15,626/15,650
Community18#12,824/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#15,014/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Soperton, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Treutlen 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 · high8.7%
99/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataTreutlen County value
Social associations · high14.2 /10k
88/100Georgia 8.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTreutlen County value
Comfortable days · high32.2%
87/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationTreutlen County value
Public libraries · high1.6 /10k
87/100Georgia 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesTreutlen County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTreutlen County value
Students per teacher · low12.0×
84/100Georgia 14.1×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsTreutlen County value

Weaknesses

Food environment index · low5.2
2/100Georgia 6.2United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTreutlen County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.1 /10k
2/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTreutlen County value
Loneliness · high41.7%
2/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Median household income · low$33,146
2/100Georgia $79,912United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Dentists · low16 /100k
3/100Georgia 54 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTreutlen County value
Adult smoking · high24.1%
3/100Georgia 17.8%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
3,076 (2015-2019) → 2,908 (2020-2024)
−5.5%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
49.6% (2015-2019) → 26.1% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
60.8% (2015-2019) → 71.0% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
43.8% (2015-2019) → 34.5% (2020-2024)
−9.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
16.8% (2015-2019) → 8.5% (2020-2024)
−8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
14.6% (2015-2019) → 7.1% (2020-2024)
−7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Soperton, Georgia improved on 1 of 11 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.

Improved1

Uninsured−8.3 points16.8% → 8.5%

Declined1

Bachelor's+−7.4 points14.6% → 7.1%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Soperton, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.0 min2015-2019	24.4 min2020-2024	−0.6 min	Within the margin of error	55%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.6%2015-2019	7.1%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Declined	4%
Broadband subscriptions	60.8%2015-2019	71.0%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Effective property tax rate	0.89%2015-2019	0.71%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	55%
High school diploma or higher	77.9%2015-2019	71.5%2020-2024	−6.4 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5542015-2019	0.4582020-2024	−0.096	Within the margin of error	95%
Median household income	$37,5832015-2019	$33,1462020-2024	−12%	Within the margin of error	3%
Poverty rate	25.4%2015-2019	24.9%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	43.8%2015-2019	34.5%2020-2024	−9.3 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	16.8%2015-2019	8.5%2020-2024	−8.3 points	Improved	94%

“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 Soperton, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Soperton, 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, Soperton, Georgia itself moved +1.9 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

2,908 residents (±21)

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

1,057 households (±156)

Soperton, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k29%†308
$25k–50k35%†371
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,057 households (±156)

Soperton, Georgia
Georgia share

Own50%533
Rent50%524

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

936 workers (±197)

Soperton, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone86%806
Carpool9.1%†85
Public transit0.0%0

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 Treutlen County, the county holding most of Soperton's residents.

Treutlen County has 82 employer establishments, 129 for every 10,000 residents (0.52× the US rate of 248; 0.55× Georgia's), with 819 paid employees at an average annual pay of $40,405. The Census Bureau also counts 530 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 82; 530 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 129; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 819
Average annual pay: $40,405; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	9	14.2	2.55×Too few to compare	19	$16,421	—
Gasoline stations	7	11	3.40×Too few to compare	35	$22,857	—
Restaurants and other eating places	6	9.4	0.51×Too few to compare	75	$11,187	4
Limited-service restaurants	5	7.9	0.98×Too few to compare	59	$10,492	—
Truck transportation	5	7.9	1.56×Too few to compare	28	$57,393	44
Specialty trade contractors	3	4.7	0.30×Too few to compare	65	$42,492	57
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	4
Advertising, public relations and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Ambulatory health care services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	22
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Architectural, engineering and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 6,358 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Soperton, Georgia: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; 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

MIDDLE GEORGIA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES, INC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

0FY2026

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

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

See federal money in Treutlen 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.

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

House

Rick W. AllenR-GA-12 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 1.6%

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.

Treutlen County4100% of residents

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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