Vienna is a city in Dooly County, Georgia. It has 2,881 residents. Vienna, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 4 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,078 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #317 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), rent-burdened households (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on math scores (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and primary care shortage (high).
4Very low
Quality-of-life score
#15,078 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia
#317 of 386 in GA
Population
2,881 (2020-2024)
Land area
6 mi²
Density
519.1 /mi²
FIPS code
1379444
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety4#15,058/15,637
Economy19#12,594/15,631
Housing99#91/14,977
Health18#12,832/15,609
Healthcare0#15,576/15,650
Environment17#12,828/15,453
Education6#14,787/15,649
Infrastructure2#15,374/15,650
Community2#15,301/15,651
Leisure & amenities11#13,911/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Vienna, Georgia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Dooly 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Vienna, Georgia five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Vienna, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Vienna is mostly in Dooly County.
Over about five years, Vienna, Georgia improved on 4 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 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.
Improved4
Child poverty−56 points84.6% → 28.5%
Child poverty rate
84.6% → 28.5%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
−56 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±14.4 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 0 → 28 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 99% of cities and towns
Household income+121%$26,120 → $57,736
Median household income
$26,120 → $57,7362015-2019 → 2020-2024
+121%Beyond the margin of error (±$15,336)
Standing among cities and towns: 2 → 28 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 99% of cities and towns
Inequality−0.1030.464 → 0.361
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.464 → 0.3612015-2019 → 2020-2024
−0.103Beyond the margin of error (±0.096)
Standing among cities and towns: 23 → 86 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 96% of cities and towns
Broadband+22 points53.5% → 75.5%
Broadband subscriptions
53.5% → 75.5%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+22 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±13.8 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 2 → 5 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 93% of cities and towns
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 10 measures
Change of every measure of Vienna, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
14.0 min2015-2019
17.9 min2020-2024
+3.9 min
Within the margin of error
15%
Bachelor's degree or higher
12.1%2015-2019
13.8%2020-2024
+1.7 points
Within the margin of error
40%
Broadband subscriptions
53.5%2015-2019
75.5%2020-2024
+22 points
Improved
93%
Child poverty rate
84.6%2015-2019
28.5%2020-2024
−56 points
Improved
100%
High school diploma or higher
78.2%2015-2019
80.4%2020-2024
+2.2 points
Within the margin of error
61%
Home price to income ratio
2.6×2015-2019
2.1×2020-2024
−0.6×
Within the margin of error
94%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4642015-2019
0.3612020-2024
−0.103
Improved
96%
Median household income
$26,1202015-2019
$57,7362020-2024
+121%
Improved
99%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
26.5%2015-2019
21.9%2020-2024
−4.6 points
Within the margin of error
85%
“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.
For comparison, Vienna, Georgia itself moved +16 points in standing on average over the same 7 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.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Dooly County, the county holding most of Vienna's residents.
Dooly County has 151 employer establishments, 137 for every 10,000 residents (0.55× the US rate of 248; 0.58× Georgia's), with 2,671 paid employees at an average annual pay of $35,763. The Census Bureau also counts 865 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
151
865 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
137
US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees
2,671
Average annual pay
$35,763
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Dooly County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 11,059 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.
Vienna, Georgia is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.
