Braselton, Georgia

Area Profile

15,178 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Braselton, in Jackson County.

74out of 100
Area Score
Top 5% of 4,196 profiles measured

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How this area ranks

Data updated · 12 sources
OpportunityTop 6% of 4,199 cities measured82
SchoolsTop 19% of 4,162 cities measured75
GrowthTop 29% of 4,224 cities measured60
Housing affordabilityTop 23% of 4,218 cities measured76
ClimateTop 17% of 4,225 cities measured80
Physical resilienceTop 35% of 4,226 cities measured71
Access3,732nd of 4,226 cities measured70
Economic stabilityTop 17% of 4,226 cities measured73
The quick read

Braselton ranks in the top 6% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.0% and median household income of $120,984. The unemployment rate is published for Jackson County, GA, which contains Braselton, rather than for Braselton alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 57% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 19% of published profiles for schools. Math proficiency is published for Jackson County, GA, which contains Braselton, rather than for Braselton alone.

Residential permitting has slowed: 309 units authorized over the past twelve months, 36% below the prior year.

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At a glance

Population
15,178
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$120,984
Top 10% nationally
Density
1,142/sq mi
13.3 sq mi of land
Median age
40.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Georgia
Micro area
Nearest major airport
ATL
48 mi · Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl
Median home value
$459,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Jackson County, GA, which contains Braselton, is 3.0%, lower than in 93% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Jackson County, GA, which contains Braselton, grew 4.3% over the past year, to 43,029 employed residents.

45% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $120,984 is higher than in 90% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$12,7322024 ACS 5-Year$120,984Top 10%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,5802024 ACS 5-Year$58,658Top 11%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year5.9%Top 28%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year33.0 minBottom 22%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year44.6%Top 15%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year70.6%30th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJackson County, GA’s figureJuly 202643,029Bottom 43%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Jackson County, GA’s figureJuly 2026−2.3%Bottom 21%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Jackson County, GA’s figureJuly 2026+4.3%Top 1%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJackson County, GA’s figureJuly 202644,34943rd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year85.2%Top 23%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year0.8%83rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Jackson County, GA’s figureJuly 2026−0.2%Top 44%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJackson County, GA’s figureJuly 20263.0%Top 7%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year19.8%85th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024121k110k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $120,984 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Jackson County, GA, which contains this city.

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 54% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Jackson County, GA, which contains Braselton, rather than for Braselton alone.

There are 14.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Jackson County, GA, which contains Braselton, rather than for Braselton alone.

Public schools
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Students per teacher
14.8
Math proficiency
56.7%
Top 19% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
53.9%
Top 25% in Georgia

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Jackson County, GA: too few schools in Braselton reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Georgia’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the non-metropolitan parts of Georgia is up 57% over five years, and up 3.4% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $4,190 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.91% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,912, below the $2,082 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,912 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $76,500 a year, about 63% of the median household income here of $120,984.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $2,082 a month.

A median home at $459,400 costs 3.2 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $143,350, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Rent as a share of income
27.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,912
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$2,082
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$459,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Braselton’s median household income of $120,984, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price change (1 year)the non-metropolitan parts of Georgia’s figure2026 Q2+3.4%54th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Georgia’s figure2026 Q2+56.5%91st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Georgia’s figure2026 Q2+115.5%82nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.82024 ACS 5-Year3.2Bottom 30%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year74.4%47th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3162024 ACS 5-Year6,13190th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,722Bottom 32%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,362Bottom 39%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,912Bottom 36%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$3012024 ACS 5-Year$2,082Bottom 7%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$28,4032024 ACS 5-Year$459,40087th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$2222024 ACS 5-Year$4,19084th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$33,7362024 ACS 5-Year$143,350Top 8%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.07%2024 ACS 5-Year0.91%46th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year27.6%Top 46%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±812024 ACS 5-Year5082nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.8%60th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year3.6%30th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1362024 ACS 5-Year26882nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures.

Development Momentum

60/ 100
Top 29% of 4,224 published city profiles
The most recent move in permitting was broadly flat, in a series running from 2022 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 28% since 2020, reaching 17,390 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 309 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

At 20.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
309
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
20.4
Top 2% nationally
Year over year
−36%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202417k14k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

Housing units permitted per year

2022202320242025619227
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+100%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 34°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 52.4 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station GAINESVILLE GILMER AP, 11.4 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals52.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals36°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

71 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and cold wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 52% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

TornadoModerate
LightningElevated
Ice stormModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HailModerate
Cold waveModerate
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, strong wind, heat wave, drought, wildfire, winter weather, tsunami, volcanic activity, coastal flooding, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
70
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
595
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Braselton's police department reported 70 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, lower than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 595.

Jackson County has a modeled homicide rate of about 3.0 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.3 per 100,000 residents in Jackson County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.4
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
11.3
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
15.8
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Braselton’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Braselton (Jackson County) rather than Braselton itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Cost of living
Price parities are published for metropolitan areas, and this place lies outside one.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. Cost of living is published where the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures it, though not for this place. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl at 48 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year98.1%Top 12%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle48 miBottom 13%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 8%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year1.5%Top 17%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL48 mi12,390 ft
Donaldson FldGYH93 mi8,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL117 mi8,002 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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JeffersonJackson County14,99077Jefferson vs Braselton

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Braselton

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Braselton with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3051718,994$118,034$411,20075