City · Fulton County, Georgia

Union City, Georgia

Union City is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area. It has 27,728 residents. Union City, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 31 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,733 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #125 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on gyms and fitness centers (high), new business applications (high) and average weekly wage (high). It ranks worst on loneliness (high), time spent in the emergency room (high) and homicide rate (high).

31Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,733 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #125 of 386 in GA
Population: 27,728 (2020-2024)
Land area: 20 mi²
Density: 1,411.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 1378324

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.

Safety6#14,672/15,637
Economy34#10,297/15,631
Housing29#10,689/14,977
Health55#7,093/15,609
Healthcare57#6,799/15,650
Environment17#12,862/15,453
Education43#8,945/15,649
Infrastructure41#9,273/15,650
Community33#10,428/15,651
Leisure & amenities97#398/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Gyms and fitness centers · high3.3 /10k
99/100Georgia 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value
New business applications · high45.4 /1k
99/100Georgia 22.5 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauFulton County value
Average weekly wage · high$1,999
98/100Georgia $1,404United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value
New homes permitted · high29.3 /1k
98/100Georgia 5.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high13.4 /10k
97/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value
Restaurants and bars · high15.9 /10k
96/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value

Weaknesses

Loneliness · high41.4%
1/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Time spent in the emergency room · high253 min
2/100Georgia 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFulton County value
Homicide rate · high13.7 /100k
3/100Georgia 7.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFulton County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.6 µg/m³
4/100Georgia 9.1 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyFulton County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high20.9%
6/100Georgia 14.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Property crime rate · high2,345 /100k
7/100Georgia 1,409 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationFulton County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
21,396 (2015-2019) → 27,728 (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
9.4 /1k (2021) → 29.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+211%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
73.9% (2015-2019) → 90.9% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 5.0× (2020-2024)
+70%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
17.5% (2015-2019) → 29.8% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
11.3% (2015-2019) → 20.9% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Union City, Georgia improved on 2 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 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.

Improved2

Bachelor's++12 points17.5% → 29.8%
Broadband+17 points73.9% → 90.9%

Declined4

Uninsured+9.6 points11.3% → 20.9%
Price / income+2.0×2.9× → 5.0×
Inequality+0.0790.371 → 0.451
Transit use−3.2 points4.4% → 1.1%

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Union City, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.2 min2015-2019	29.1 min2020-2024	+2.9 min	Within the margin of error	20%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.5%2015-2019	29.8%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	94%
Broadband subscriptions	73.9%2015-2019	90.9%2020-2024	+17 points	Improved	85%
Child poverty rate	15.0%2015-2019	16.2%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Effective property tax rate	1.04%2015-2019	0.77%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	70%
High school diploma or higher	89.6%2015-2019	88.6%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+2.0×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3712015-2019	0.4512020-2024	+0.079	Declined	8%
Median household income	$45,3242015-2019	$49,5492020-2024	+9.3%	Within the margin of error	16%
Poverty rate	14.0%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Public transit commuters	4.4%2015-2019	1.1%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Declined	10%
Rent as share of income	32.0%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent-burdened households	55.9%2015-2019	56.1%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Unemployment rate	6.5%2015-2019	5.8%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.3%2015-2019	20.9%2020-2024	+9.6 points	Declined	3%

“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 Union City, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Union City, 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, Union City, Georgia itself moved −6.6 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

27,728 residents (±26)

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

11,088 households (±938)

Union City, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k20%†2,171
$25k–50k32%†3,497
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

11,088 households (±938)

Union City, Georgia
Georgia share

Own40%4,479
Rent60%6,609

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

13,130 workers (±1,125)

Union City, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone71%9,281
Carpool5.9%†770
Public transit1.1%†150

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 Fulton County, the county holding most of Union City's residents.

Fulton County has 40,949 employer establishments, 378 for every 10,000 residents (1.52× the US rate of 248; 1.60× Georgia's), with 928,068 paid employees at an average annual pay of $92,125. The Census Bureau also counts 144,976 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 40,949; 144,976 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 378; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 928,068
Average annual pay: $92,125; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	3,752	34.6	1.66×More than typical	45,887	$82,849	6,808
Restaurants and other eating places	3,008	27.8	1.51×More than typical	64,462	$26,263	829
Lessors of real estate	2,946	27.2	2.21×More than typical	22,888	$95,391	16,323
Management, scientific and technical consulting	2,214	20.4	3.05×More than typical	25,387	$151,462	9,083
Legal services	1,739	16.1	2.99×More than typical	17,114	$143,255	1,816
Computer systems design and related services	1,623	15	3.46×More than typical	40,142	$117,231	2,219
Real estate agents and brokers	1,372	12.7	2.60×More than typical	5,641	$109,935	4,073
Full-service restaurants	1,363	12.6	1.64×More than typical	35,891	$30,558	380
Offices of physicians	1,361	12.6	1.94×More than typical	22,546	$107,714	1,442
Limited-service restaurants	1,254	11.6	1.44×More than typical	23,674	$21,155	254
Offices of other health practitioners	1,075	9.9	1.63×More than typical	5,018	$48,502	2,791
Personal care services	963	8.9	1.86×More than typical	4,887	$37,904	8,894

Rank places for an industry Open Fulton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,083,022 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 $4.5M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Union City, Georgia: $162 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $4.5M; −38% vs FY2025
Per resident: $162; US $1,994
Sole-source: 27%; US 30%
Single offer: 1.3%; 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

Federal Acquisition Service$3.1M69%
Defense Logistics Agency$1.2M26%
Department of Education$125.3K2.8%
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management$60.5K1.4%
Department of the Army$48.3K1.1%
Defense Commissary Agency$2,0360.0%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$2780.0%

Top recipients

LIFE SCIENCE LOGISTICS LLC$3.1M69%
AAR SUPPLY CHAIN, INC$1.2M26%
ABACUS MIND MATH TUTORS, INC.$125.3K2.8%
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT GROUP LLC$60.5K1.4%
CFOL INTERNATIONAL INC$48.3K1.1%

Spending by fiscal year

589KFY2017
-6.8MFY2018
456.2KFY2019
3MFY2020
7.2MFY2021
7.7MFY2022
13.9MFY2023
4.8MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Warehousing and storage · 4931$3.1M69%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$982.6K22%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$145.5K3.2%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$125.3K2.8%
Facilities support services · 5612$60.5K1.4%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416

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 Union City, Georgia, so they do not add up across cities.

Union City, Georgia's figures are part of those of Fulton County, GA ($1.3B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in Fulton 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.

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

House

Senate

Jon OssoffD-

County

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

Fulton County66100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA57

Other cities and towns in Fulton 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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