Scores by category

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

Safety31#640/924
Economy35#597/925
Housing40#559/925
Health34#613/925
Healthcare29#660/923
Environment18#751/917
Education26#682/925
Infrastructure11#821/925
Community21#735/925
Leisure & amenities58#388/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Thomasville, GA micropolitan area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Drug overdose deaths · low7.1 /100k
95/100Georgia 14.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAggregated from counties
Comfortable days · high33.3%
94/100Georgia 31.5%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationAggregated from counties
Child care cost burden · low21.5%
90/100Georgia 23.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Gyms and fitness centers · high1.6 /10k
89/100Georgia 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAggregated from counties
Depression · low20.9%
86/100Georgia 19.3%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAggregated from counties
Unemployment rate · low3.2%
85/100Georgia 3.4%United States 4.3%2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPartial year

Weaknesses

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.8 µg/m³
2/100Georgia 9.1 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAggregated from counties
Public EV charging ports · low0.7 /10k
5/100Georgia 6.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyAggregated from counties
Access to exercise opportunities · low48.3%
5/100Georgia 74.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Restaurants and bars · low4.9 /10k
6/100Georgia 8.5 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAggregated from counties
Loneliness · high38.0%
8/100Georgia 37.9%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAggregated from counties
Child poverty rate · high28.7%
8/100Georgia 16.9%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

Trends

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

Drought exposureWorsening
0% (2021) → 83% (Oct 2025–Sep 2026)
+83 pts5 yearsUS 40% → 43%
High ozone daysImproving
1 days (2017) → 0 days (2022)
−100%5 yearsUS 9 days → 7 days
Homicide rateWorsening
4.6 /100k (2019) → 9.2 /100k (2024)
+100%5 yearsUS 5.8 /100k → 6.0 /100k
New homes permittedWorsening
5.5 /1k (2021) → 2.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−60%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Property crime rateImproving
2,732 /100k (2019) → 1,371 /100k (2025)
−50%6 yearsUS 2,082 /100k → 1,535 /100k
Preventable hospital staysImproving
5,205 /100k (2019) → 2,613 /100k (2023)
−50%4 yearsUS 3,767 /100k → 2,769 /100k

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, Thomasville, GA micropolitan area improved on 11 of 28 measures with a comparison and declined on 8. 7 moved within the margin of error and 2 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among metro and micro areas: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2015-2019 with 2020-2024); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved11

Grocery stores+48%1.4 /10k → 2.1 /10k
Rent / income−5.2 points34.0% → 28.8%
Inequality−0.0410.500 → 0.460
Household income+38%$43,740 → $60,262
Violent crime−34%308 /100k → 204 /100k

Declined8

Bachelor's+−4.3 points24.7% → 20.4%
Suicides+89%9.3 /100k → 17.6 /100k
Commute+2.7 min19.6 min → 22.3 min
Arts & recreation−18%4.9 /10k → 4.0 /10k
Firearm deaths+27%13.8 /100k → 17.5 /100k

All 28 measures

Change of every measure of Thomasville, GA micropolitan area between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	4.9 /10k2020	4.0 /10k2025	−18%	Declined	7%
Average commute time	19.6 min2015-2019	22.3 min2020-2024	+2.7 min	Declined	7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.7%2015-2019	20.4%2020-2024	−4.3 points	Declined	1%
Broadband subscriptions	79.0%2015-2019	86.6%2020-2024	+7.6 points	Improved	31%
Child poverty rate	26.3%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Distance to an airport	110 mi2020	110 mi2025	−0 mi	Little change	81%
Drug overdose deaths	11.6 /100k2020	7.1 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−39%	Improved	68%
Effective property tax rate	0.87%2015-2019	0.87%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Firearm deaths	13.8 /100k2020	17.5 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	+27%	Declined	19%
Grocery stores	1.4 /10k2020	2.1 /10k2025	+48%	Improved	97%
Gyms and fitness centers	2.1 /10k2020	1.6 /10k2025	−21%	Declined	18%
High school diploma or higher	84.9%2015-2019	86.0%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	−0.4×	Within the margin of error	99%
Income adjusted for local prices	$46,1752019	$60,7652024	+32%	Improved	50%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5002015-2019	0.4602020-2024	−0.041	Improved	98%
Median household income	$43,7402015-2019	$60,2622020-2024	+38%	Improved	92%
New business applications	14.8 /1k2020	15.8 /1k2025	+7.1%	Improved	7%
Pharmacies	2.1 /10k2020	2.1 /10k2025	−1.3%	Little change	67%
Poverty rate	19.2%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Public libraries	1.0 /10k2019	1.0 /10k2024	−5.1%	Declined	24%
Rent as share of income	34.0%2015-2019	28.8%2020-2024	−5.2 points	Improved	98%
Rent-burdened households	54.8%2015-2019	47.3%2020-2024	−7.5 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Restaurants and bars	4.6 /10k2020	4.9 /10k2025	+7.7%	Improved	74%
Suicide rate	9.3 /100k2020	17.6 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	+89%	Declined	2%
Traffic deaths	20.4 /100k2015-2019	23.1 /100k2020-2024	+13%	Declined	40%
Unemployment rate	4.8%2020	3.2%2025	−1.6 points	Improved	12%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	18.0%2015-2019	17.2%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Violent crime rate	308 /100k2020	204 /100k2025	−34%	Improved	80%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 708 metro and micro areas that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master files; Public Libraries Survey; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 925 metro and micro areas 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.

Metro and micro areas like Thomasville, GA micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Thomasville, GA micropolitan 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.

For comparison, Thomasville, GA micropolitan area itself moved +0.9 points in standing on average over the same 28 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

71,885 residents

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

28,792 households (±530)

Thomasville, GA micropolitan area
United States share

Under $25k21%6,184
$25k–50k23%6,494
$50k–75k14%4,037

Homes

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

Owners and renters

28,792 households (±530)

Thomasville, GA micropolitan area
United States share

Own65%18,597
Rent35%10,195

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+3.4 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

31,802 workers (±886)

Thomasville, GA micropolitan area
United States share

Drive alone78%24,938
Carpool14%4,412
Public transit0.2%†54

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 no occupation wages for Thomasville, GA micropolitan area.

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.

Thomasville, GA has 1,671 employer establishments, 232 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248), with 23,975 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,926. The Census Bureau also counts 5,975 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,671; 5,975 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 232; US 248
Paid employees: 23,975
Average annual pay: $51,926; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	143	19.9	0.95×About typical	1,390	$69,234	379
Restaurants and other eating places	118	16.4	0.89×About typical	1,936	$19,888	25
Specialty trade contractors	100	13.9	0.90×About typical	721	$60,835	403
Religious organizations	84	11.7	2.11×More than typical	455	$19,653	—
Lessors of real estate	67	9.3	0.76×Fewer than typical	170	$35,694	494
Limited-service restaurants	66	9.2	1.14×About typical	1,137	$17,478	7
Gasoline stations	61	8.5	2.62×More than typical	354	$24,814	3
Offices of physicians	50	7	1.07×About typical	590	$106,088	63
Services to buildings and dwellings	50	7	1.03×About typical	408	$29,169	646
Insurance agencies and brokerages	47	6.5	1.49×More than typical	387	$57,085	119
Building equipment contractors	39	5.4	0.90×About typical	368	$77,620	75
Offices of other health practitioners	39	5.4	0.89×About typical	221	$49,570	104

Rank places for an industry

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 71,915 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.
A metro area's figures are the exact sums of its counties.
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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $1.2M on contracts performed in Thomasville, GA micropolitan area: $17.13 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1.2M; −51% vs FY2025
Per resident: $17.13; US $1,994
Sole-source: 19%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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 Emergency Management Agency$623.2K50%
Department of the Army$311.7K25%
Defense Logistics Agency$128.5K10%
Department of Veterans Affairs$128.2K10%
Public Buildings Service$36K2.9%
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$31.8K2.5%

Top recipients

BAYLY, INC$311.7K25%
SPATHE SYSTEMS LLC$211.5K17%
COFFMAN ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CO.$165.7K13%
JOHNSON CONTROLS SECURITY SOLUTIONS LLC$137.2K11%
PURCHINEX LLC$128.2K10%

Spending by fiscal year

807.8KFY2017
1.7MFY2018
3.8MFY2019
1.1MFY2020
4.4MFY2021
1.5MFY2022
2.8MFY2023
3.7M

Top industries (NAICS)

Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing · 3159$292.2K23%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$220.7K18%
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing · 3341$211.5K17%
Investigation and security services · 5616$149.9K12%
Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing · 3333$128.2K10%
Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers · 4413

Largest awards

AWARD FOR CONSTRUCT SEWAGE LIFT STATION AT 436 PINETREE BOULEVARD THOMASVILLE GA 31792$1.4M
VISIONARY CONSTRUCTION INC· Grady County, GA· Construction & real property· Jul 27, 2023 – Aug 7, 2026· 47PE0223C0015
DESIGN-BUILD (DB) SERVICES TO RESOLVE DRAINAGE AND EROSION ISSUES AT THE FEMA HEADQUARTERS IN THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.$890.7K
MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC· Thomas County, GA· Construction & real property· Jan 8, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026· 47PE0225F0026
THIS PROJECT IS THE REPLACEMENT OF THE MOBILE EMERGENCY RESPONSE SUPPORT (MERS) GENERATOR LOCATED IN THE FEMA MERS WAREHOUSE IN THOMASVILLE, GA.$315.2K
BRYANT CONSOLIDATED SERVICES LLC· Grady County, GA· Construction & real property· Jun 24, 2025 – Jun 26, 2026· 47PE0225C0019

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.

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.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $478.8M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Thomasville, GA micropolitan area: $6,562 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $478.8M; −8.2% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6,562; US $12,955
Loan face value: $26.8M; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 3.4%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$272.8M57%
64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$51.3M11%
96.001 · Social Security Disability Insurance$44.5M9.3%
96.004 · Social Security Survivors Insurance$27.2M5.7%
96.006 · Supplemental Security Income$23.1M4.8%
84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$20.2M4.2%
10.988 · Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$5.4M1.1%
64.110 · Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death$4.3M0.9%

Top recipients (organizations)

SOUTHERN REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE$18.3M3.8%
THOMASVILLE, GA
THOMAS UNIVERSITY, INC.$3.3M0.7%
THOMASVILLE, GA
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THOMASVILLE$1.4M0.3%
THOMASVILLE, GA
HOUSING AUTHORITY CITY-PLHM$1.3M0.3%
PELHAM, GA
GRADY HOUSING INC$1.2M

Organizations only: awards to individuals and county aggregate records count in the totals but are never listed. Grants to state governments recorded at the agency's own address are counted statewide, not in the capital's county.

Top agencies

Social Security Administration$367.6M77%
Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration$59.3M12%
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Education$22.3M4.6%
Farm Service Agency$14.1M2.9%
Department of Agriculture
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing$2.9M

Assistance by fiscal year

421.7MFY2021
407.9MFY2022
427.5MFY2023
452.8MFY2024
521.7MFY2025
478.8MFY2026

County aggregates

90%

Share of obligations reported only as county totals of many small awards (for example Social Security or Medicare payments), with no recipient named.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Counties in Thomasville, 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.

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

ThomasvillePrincipal city18,666

Largest cities and towns

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

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved11

Declined8

Metro and micro areas like Thomasville, GA micropolitan area five years ago that improved

Who lives here

Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

Getting to work

How people get to work

Jobs and pay

Local businesses

Federal contract spending

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

Largest awards

Federal grants & assistance

Top programs

Top recipients (organizations)

Top agencies

Assistance by fiscal year

County aggregates

Counties in Thomasville, GA

Principal cities

Largest cities and towns

Other metro and micro areas in Georgia

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Similar metro and micro areas

Data and sources

Improved11

Declined8

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Top programs

Top recipients (organizations)

Top agencies

Assistance by fiscal year

County aggregates

By type

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

Largest awards

What was bought