City · Washington County, Georgia

Tennille, Georgia

Tennille is a city in Washington County, Georgia. It has 1,650 residents. Tennille, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,424 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #351 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), comfortable days (high) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on median household income (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and loneliness (high).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,424 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #351 of 386 in GA
Population: 1,650 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 948.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 1375888

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety21#12,410/15,637
Economy14#13,447/15,631
Housing26#11,131/14,977
Health10#13,980/15,609
Healthcare9#14,291/15,650
Environment47#8,210/15,453
Education8#14,455/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,547/15,650
Community4#15,076/15,651
Leisure & amenities2#15,408/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low118 min
88/100Georgia 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWashington County value
Comfortable days · high31.8%
86/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWashington County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWashington County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWashington County value
Child care cost burden · low23.8%
81/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWashington County value
Job growth · high1.2%
81/100Georgia 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataWashington County value

Weaknesses

Median household income · low$29,250
1/100Georgia $79,912United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.5 /10k
1/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWashington County value
Loneliness · high42.3%
2/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Distance to an emergency room · high22.4 mi
2/100Georgia 7.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWashington County value
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100Georgia 8.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWashington County value
Homicide rate · high14.0 /100k
3/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataWashington County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
50.6% (2015-2019) → 82.3% (2020-2024)
+32 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
76.8 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
High school diploma or higherImproving
75.0% (2015-2019) → 89.6% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
38.7% (2015-2019) → 51.4% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.6× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+20%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Unemployment rateImproving
6.0% (2015-2019) → 3.2% (2020-2024)
−2.8 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, Tennille, Georgia improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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

High school++15 points75.0% → 89.6%
Broadband+32 points50.6% → 82.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Tennille, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.4 min2015-2019	20.8 min2020-2024	−2.6 min	Within the margin of error	76%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.1%2015-2019	10.0%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Broadband subscriptions	50.6%2015-2019	82.3%2020-2024	+32 points	Improved	98%
Child poverty rate	38.7%2015-2019	51.4%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	9%
High school diploma or higher	75.0%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	98%
Home price to income ratio	2.6×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	46%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5382015-2019	0.5202020-2024	−0.018	Within the margin of error	66%
Median household income	$27,9092015-2019	$29,2502020-2024	+4.8%	Within the margin of error	11%
Poverty rate	29.6%2015-2019	31.5%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Rent as share of income	30.1%2015-2019	30.6%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Rent-burdened households	50.2%2015-2019	52.4%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.2%2015-2019	18.3%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	58%

“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 Tennille, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tennille, 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, Tennille, Georgia itself moved +6.5 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,650 residents (±333)

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

666 households (±155)

Tennille, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k47%†315
$25k–50k24%†158
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

666 households (±155)

Tennille, Georgia
Georgia share

Own42%†280
Rent58%†386

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

652 workers (±190)

Tennille, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone67%†440
Carpool11%†74
Public transit

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 Washington County, the county holding most of Tennille's residents.

Washington County has 342 employer establishments, 172 for every 10,000 residents (0.69× the US rate of 248; 0.73× Georgia's), with 5,362 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,763. The Census Bureau also counts 1,594 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 342; 1,594 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 172; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 5,362
Average annual pay: $49,763; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	27	13.6	0.65×Fewer than typical	286	$33,692	107
Restaurants and other eating places	22	11.1	0.60×Fewer than typical	341	$14,540	4
Religious organizations	18	9.1	1.64×More than typical	60	$21,317	—
Specialty trade contractors	14	7.1	0.46×Fewer than typical	282	$54,926	112
Gasoline stations	13	6.6	2.02×More than typical	112	$25,804	—
Lessors of real estate	13	6.6	0.53×Fewer than typical	38	$87,053	56
Limited-service restaurants	13	6.6	0.82×About typical	226	$14,261	—
General merchandise stores	10	5	2.85×More than typical	254	$30,421	6
Child day care services	9	4.5	1.86×Too few to compare	113	$21,956	35
Full-service restaurants	7	3.5	0.46×Too few to compare	113	$15,195	—
Grocery and convenience stores	7	3.5	1.19×Too few to compare	85	$20,506	—
Legal services	7	3.5	0.66×Too few to compare	12	$80,333	7

Rank places for an industry Open Washington County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,831 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 $617 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Tennille, Georgia: $0.37 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $617; −60% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.37; 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$617100%

Top recipients

DAWSON PRECISION, LLC$617100%

Spending by fiscal year

1.6KFY2020
2.9KFY2023
2.5KFY2024
1.5KFY2025
617.2FY2026

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$617100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$617100%

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

Tennille, Georgia's figures are part of those of Washington County, GA ($46.6K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.3% of that total.

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

See federal money in Washington 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.

Tennille, 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.

Washington County5100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Washington 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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