Metro area · Georgia

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA is a metropolitan area of 29 counties in Georgia, home to 6,482,182 residents. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 57 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #401 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Georgia it ranks #2 of 37. It ranks best on new business applications (high), depression (low) and average weekly wage (high). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and median Air Quality Index (high).

57Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#401 of 925 metro and micro areas
Georgia
#2 of 37 in GA
Population
6,482,182 (2025)
Land area
8,784 mi²
Density
737.9 /mi²
CBSA code
12060

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety36#595/924
  • Economy91#85/925
  • Housing21#730/925
  • Health89#100/925
  • Healthcare36#591/923
  • Environment5#874/917
  • Education82#163/925
  • Infrastructure78#202/925
  • Community29#658/925
  • Leisure & amenities80#182/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area 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.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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 contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Fulton CountyCentral county661,098,791
  2. Gwinnett CountyCentral county651,018,099
  3. Cobb CountyCentral county82793,345
  4. DeKalb CountyCentral county55774,394
  5. Cherokee CountyCentral county80299,273
  6. Clayton CountyCentral county9297,471
  7. Forsyth CountyCentral county88282,805
  8. Henry CountyCentral county46264,922
  9. Paulding CountyCentral county52190,996
  10. Coweta CountyCentral county64160,240
  11. Douglas CountyCentral county40154,293
  12. Newton CountyCentral county26125,583
  13. Fayette CountyCentral county88125,156
  14. Walton CountyCentral county47112,696
  15. Rockdale CountyCentral county4098,416
  16. Dawson CountyCentral county7435,365
  17. Carroll CountyOutlying county36131,036
  18. Bartow CountyOutlying county41120,800
  19. Barrow CountyOutlying county4299,773
  20. Spalding CountyOutlying county1370,775
  21. Pickens CountyOutlying county5437,167
  22. Lumpkin CountyOutlying county4936,178
  23. Haralson CountyOutlying county2633,066
  24. Butts CountyOutlying county2127,218
  25. Morgan CountyOutlying county4822,095
  26. Meriwether CountyOutlying county921,516
  27. Pike CountyOutlying county4320,932
  28. Jasper CountyOutlying county2617,632
  29. Heard CountyOutlying county1712,149

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. AlpharettaPrincipal city66,855
  2. AtlantaPrincipal city505,268
  3. DunwoodyPrincipal city51,758
  4. MariettaPrincipal city62,263
  5. RoswellPrincipal city92,621
  6. Sandy SpringsPrincipal city107,087

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Atlanta505,268
  2. South Fulton110,471
  3. Sandy Springs107,087
  4. Roswell92,621
  5. Johns Creek81,988
  6. Mableton77,678
  7. Alpharetta66,855
  8. Marietta62,263
  9. Stonecrest60,501
  10. Brookhaven57,855
  11. Smyrna56,633
  12. Dunwoody51,758
  13. Newnan44,235
  14. Peachtree Corners42,373
  15. Milton41,546
  16. Peachtree City39,576
  17. East Point38,335
  18. Douglasville37,536
  19. Woodstock37,381
  20. Tucker37,123
  21. Canton35,741
  22. Stockbridge35,737
  23. Kennesaw34,605
  24. Duluth32,426

Other metro and micro areas in Georgia

Areas based in Georgia, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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