City · Camden County, Georgia

Woodbine, Georgia

Woodbine is a city in Camden County, Georgia, part of the Kingsland, GA metro area. It has 1,399 residents. Woodbine, Georgia has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,827 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Georgia it ranks #225 of 386 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), reading scores (high) and math scores (high). It ranks worst on broadband subscriptions (low), primary care physicians (low) and loneliness (high).

12Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,827 of 15,651 cities and towns
Georgia: #225 of 386 in GA
Population: 1,399 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 550.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1383868

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety45#8,569/15,637
Economy33#10,410/15,631
Housing40#8,938/14,977
Health30#10,986/15,609
Healthcare8#14,340/15,650
Environment27#11,214/15,453
Education50#7,759/15,649
Infrastructure6#14,731/15,650
Community7#14,562/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,765/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Comfortable days · high35.0%
95/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCamden County value
Reading scores · high3.36
92/100Georgia 2.97United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCamden County value
Math scores · high3.33
86/100Georgia 2.92United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCamden County value
New homes permitted · high6.4 /1k
81/100Georgia 5.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Hospital quality rating · high4.0
80/100Georgia 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCamden County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Georgia 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCamden County value

Weaknesses

Broadband subscriptions · low76.1%
6/100Georgia 91.0%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Primary care physicians · low23 /100k
6/100Georgia 67 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCamden County value
Loneliness · high38.4%
7/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Food environment index · low6.4
7/100Georgia 6.2United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCamden County value
Drought exposure · high88%
7/100Georgia 73%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAACamden County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.7 /10k
7/100Georgia 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCamden County value

Trends

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

Child poverty rateImproving
58.5% (2015-2019) → 4.1% (2020-2024)
−54 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedImproving
1.7 /1k (2021) → 6.4 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+270%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Poverty rateImproving
33.9% (2015-2019) → 10.5% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
11.4% (2015-2019) → 2.6% (2020-2024)
−8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.7% (2015-2019) → 76.1% (2020-2024)
+7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
45.5% (2015-2019) → 39.1% (2020-2024)
−6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Woodbine, Georgia improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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

Poverty−23 points33.9% → 10.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Woodbine, Georgia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.9%2015-2019	11.2%2020-2024	−4.6 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Broadband subscriptions	68.7%2015-2019	76.1%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Effective property tax rate	1.02%2015-2019	0.83%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	56%
High school diploma or higher	86.6%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4332015-2019	0.4532020-2024	+0.020	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$37,7082015-2019	$46,2502020-2024	+23%	Within the margin of error	39%
Poverty rate	33.9%2015-2019	10.5%2020-2024	−23 points	Improved	100%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.3%2015-2019	24.9%2020-2024	−4.4 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.0%2015-2019	16.2%2020-2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	75%

“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 Woodbine, Georgia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Woodbine, 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, Woodbine, Georgia itself moved −0.1 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.

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

1,399 residents (±393)

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

536 households (±111)

Woodbine, Georgia
Georgia share

Under $25k29%†155
$25k–50k22%†117
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

536 households (±111)

Woodbine, Georgia
Georgia share

Own63%339
Rent37%†197

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

640 workers (±277)

Woodbine, Georgia
Georgia share

Drive alone88%†563
Carpool7.0%†45
Public transit

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 Kingsland, 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 Camden County, the county holding most of Woodbine's residents.

Camden County has 947 employer establishments, 164 for every 10,000 residents (0.66× the US rate of 248; 0.69× Georgia's), with 10,074 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,697. The Census Bureau also counts 3,696 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 947; 3,696 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 164; US 248 · Georgia 236
Paid employees: 10,074
Average annual pay: $39,697; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	89	15.4	0.74×Fewer than typical	636	$56,660	137
Restaurants and other eating places	88	15.2	0.83×About typical	1,942	$19,659	27
Lessors of real estate	53	9.2	0.74×Fewer than typical	134	$44,776	357
Limited-service restaurants	45	7.8	0.97×About typical	1,024	$18,862	8
Specialty trade contractors	43	7.4	0.48×Fewer than typical	176	$53,159	225
Gasoline stations	35	6	1.86×More than typical	326	$31,095	—
Religious organizations	35	6	1.09×About typical	232	$19,724	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	33	5.7	0.85×About typical	113	$32,761	306
Full-service restaurants	30	5.2	0.67×Fewer than typical	750	$21,179	8
Offices of other health practitioners	29	5	0.82×About typical	144	$45,771	63
Construction of buildings	28	4.8	0.64×Fewer than typical	77	$63,299	98
Traveler accommodation	28	4.8	2.68×More than typical	264	$22,981	12

Rank places for an industry Open Camden County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 57,901 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 $820 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Woodbine, Georgia: $0.59 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $820; −46% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.59; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; 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

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division$820100%

Top recipients

KELLEY'S TOWING & RECOVERY, INC.$820100.0%
BROCK & SCOTT PLLC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

9.3KFY2017
10.4KFY2018
21.7KFY2019
64.9KFY2020
6.1KFY2021
12.2KFY2022
31.2KFY2023
786.3FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Support activities for road transportation · 4884$820100.0%

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

Woodbine, Georgia's figures are part of those of Camden County, GA ($228.8M 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: Woodbine is mostly in Camden County.

See federal money in Camden 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.

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

House

Earl L. "Buddy" CarterR-GA-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 5.5%

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.

Camden County36100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Kingsland, GA37

Other cities and towns in Camden 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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