City · DeKalb County, Georgia

Tucker, Georgia

Tucker is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area. It has 37,123 residents. Tucker, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 37 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,889 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #104 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on new business applications (high), depression (low) and primary care physicians (high). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), time spent in the emergency room (high) and rent-burdened households (high).

37Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,889 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #104 of 386 in GA
Population: 37,123 (2020-2024)
Land area: 20 mi²
Density: 1,836.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1377652

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety4#14,982/15,637
Economy52#7,550/15,631
Housing5#14,180/14,977
Health76#3,720/15,609
Healthcare46#8,488/15,650
Environment41#9,094/15,453
Education43#8,858/15,649
Infrastructure71#4,607/15,650
Community27#11,388/15,651
Leisure & amenities69#4,796/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

New business applications · high27.0 /1k
96/100Georgia 22.5 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauDeKalb County value
Depression · low17.4%
93/100Georgia 19.3%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Primary care physicians · high107 /100k
86/100Georgia 67 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeKalb County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Georgia 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeKalb County value
Suicide rate · low9.4 /100k
86/100Georgia 14.7 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDeKalb County value
Average weekly wage · high$1,536
85/100Georgia $1,404United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDeKalb County value

Weaknesses

Property crime rate · high3,116 /100k
2/100Georgia 1,409 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationDeKalb County value
Time spent in the emergency room · high248 min
3/100Georgia 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDeKalb County value
Rent-burdened households · high72.1%
4/100Georgia 52.4%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.5 µg/m³
4/100Georgia 9.1 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDeKalb County value
Homicide rate · high12.6 /100k
5/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDeKalb County value
Violent crime rate · high598 /100k
5/100Georgia 297 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationDeKalb County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
55.1% (2015-2019) → 72.1% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
1.5 /1k (2021) → 0.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−63%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
88.9% (2015-2019) → 96.5% (2020-2024)
+7.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.6× (2015-2019) → 4.8× (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
33.0% (2015-2019) → 39.3% (2020-2024)
+6.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
12.7% (2015-2019) → 17.5% (2020-2024)
+4.8 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, Tucker, Georgia improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 8 moved within the margin of error and 1 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

Broadband+7.7 points88.9% → 96.5%
Household income+14%$70,522 → $80,317

Declined3

Rent burden+17 points55.1% → 72.1%
Price / income+1.2×3.6× → 4.8×
Rent / income+6.3 points33.0% → 39.3%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Tucker, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.6 min2015-2019	28.5 min2020-2024	−3.1 min	Within the margin of error	80%
Bachelor's degree or higher	47.6%2015-2019	44.7%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Broadband subscriptions	88.9%2015-2019	96.5%2020-2024	+7.7 points	Improved	47%
Child poverty rate	12.7%2015-2019	17.5%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Effective property tax rate	1.11%2015-2019	0.90%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	60%
High school diploma or higher	89.8%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Home price to income ratio	3.6×2015-2019	4.8×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4602015-2019	0.4732020-2024	+0.013	Within the margin of error	39%
Median household income	$70,5222015-2019	$80,3172020-2024	+14%	Improved	22%
Poverty rate	10.0%2015-2019	10.6%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent as share of income	33.0%2015-2019	39.3%2020-2024	+6.3 points	Declined	17%
Rent-burdened households	55.1%2015-2019	72.1%2020-2024	+17 points	Declined	12%
Unemployment rate	4.7%2015-2019	6.5%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.0%2015-2019	15.8%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	61%

“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 Tucker, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tucker, 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, Tucker, Georgia itself moved −4 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

37,123 residents (±58)

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

14,704 households (±690)

Tucker, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k13%1,939
$25k–50k19%2,845
$50k–75k16%2,323

Homes

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

Owners and renters

14,704 households (±690)

Tucker, Georgia
Georgia share

Own63%9,259
Rent37%5,445

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

17,569 workers (±948)

Tucker, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone64%11,201
Carpool7.6%1,341
Public transit1.8%†324

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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, 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 DeKalb County, the county holding most of Tucker's residents.

DeKalb County has 18,258 employer establishments, 238 for every 10,000 residents (0.96× the US rate of 248; 1.01× Georgia's), with 298,747 paid employees at an average annual pay of $69,127. The Census Bureau also counts 100,237 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 18,258; 100,237 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 238; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 298,747
Average annual pay: $69,127; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	1,766	23	1.10×About typical	21,922	$75,620	5,226
Restaurants and other eating places	1,466	19.1	1.04×About typical	24,866	$23,836	702
Lessors of real estate	1,207	15.7	1.28×More than typical	4,707	$69,742	6,551
Management, scientific and technical consulting	826	10.7	1.60×More than typical	5,028	$109,889	4,450
Limited-service restaurants	692	9	1.12×About typical	11,502	$20,651	227
Legal services	664	8.6	1.61×More than typical	2,831	$89,342	1,057
Offices of other health practitioners	604	7.9	1.29×More than typical	2,472	$47,990	2,002
Full-service restaurants	588	7.7	1.00×About typical	11,012	$27,390	323
Real estate agents and brokers	530	6.9	1.42×More than typical	768	$74,043	1,885
Specialty trade contractors	516	6.7	0.43×Fewer than typical	6,507	$73,789	4,486
Offices of physicians	494	6.4	0.99×About typical	8,342	$104,228	891
Computer systems design and related services	480	6.2	1.44×More than typical	10,405	$98,383	938

Rank places for an industry Open DeKalb County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 768,424 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 $530.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Tucker, Georgia: $14.29 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $530.7K
Per resident: $14.29; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 100%; 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

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services$622.1K100%
Department of Veterans Affairs$192.5K36%
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$178.4K34%
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$118.6K22%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$35.5K6.7%
National Institutes of Health$23.1K4.4%
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$22.8K4.3%
Food and Drug Administration$17.7K3.3%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

6.4MFY2017
17.8MFY2018
9.8MFY2019
17MFY2020
13.3MFY2021
18.5MFY2022
4.7MFY2023
12.9M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other textile product mills · 3149$1.3M100%
Other professional, scientific, and technical services · 5419$228.9K43%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$193.9K37%
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing · 3254$111.7K21%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$89.1K17%
Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Tucker, Georgia

ARX COMMUNICATION & MEDIA$10M
CATMEDIA INC· DeKalb County, GA· Professional services· Sep 11, 2020 – Dec 12, 2025· 75D30120F09670
4X6" CEREMONIAL AMERICAN STICK FLAGS$2.7M
ATLAS FLAGS, INC.· DeKalb County, GA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 6, 2022 – Aug 12, 2026· 70SBUR22C00000018
TASK ORDER IS ISSUED TO FULLY FUND OPTION PERIOD ONE (1)$845.1K
RESIDENTIAL ENHANCEMENTS, INC.· DeKalb County, GA· Professional services· Nov 20, 2019 – Feb 13, 2026· 86614520F00001
8511446762!FLAG,NATIONAL

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

Tucker, Georgia's figures are part of those of DeKalb County, GA ($1.7B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in DeKalb 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.

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

House

Senate

Jon Ossoff

County

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

DeKalb County55100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA57

Other cities and towns in DeKalb 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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