30517 — Braselton, Georgia

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 30517. Its median home value runs 10% below Braselton as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

75out of 100
Area Score
Top 5% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 11 sources
OpportunityTop 6% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured81
SchoolsTop 16% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured77
GrowthTop 32% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured60
Housing affordabilityTop 14% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured80
ClimateTop 16% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured80
Physical resilienceTop 33% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured71
Access2,780th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured69
Economic stabilityTop 31% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured65
The quick read

30517 ranks in the top 6% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.0% and median household income of $118,034. The unemployment rate is published for Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 57% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 16% of published profiles for schools. Math proficiency is published for Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

Residential permitting has slowed: 309 units authorized over the past twelve months, 36% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
18,994
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$118,034
Top 10% nationally
Density
687/sq mi
27.7 sq mi of land
Median age
39.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Braselton
Georgia
Micro area
Nearest major airport
ATL
50 mi · Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl
Median home value
$411,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, is 3.0%, lower than in 94% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, grew 4.3% over the past year, to 43,029 employed residents.

38% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 78% of measured US ZIP areas.

Median household income of $118,034 is higher than in 90% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$9,3052024 ACS 5-Year$118,034Top 10%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,7182024 ACS 5-Year$52,645Top 17%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year7.1%Top 32%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year31.6 minBottom 31%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year38.3%Top 22%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year72.5%37th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentBraselton, GA’s figureJuly 202643,029Bottom 46%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Braselton, GA’s figureJuly 2026−2.3%Bottom 21%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Braselton, GA’s figureJuly 2026+4.3%Top 1%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceBraselton, GA’s figureJuly 202644,34945th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year82.0%Top 33%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.5%2024 ACS 5-Year0.4%70th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Braselton, GA’s figureJuly 2026−0.2%Top 45%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateBraselton, GA’s figureJuly 20263.0%Top 6%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year15.6%74th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024118k102k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $118,034 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Braselton, GA, the city containing this ZIP code.

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 Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

There are 14.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

Public schools
—
Students per teacher
14.8
Math proficiency
56.7%
Top 17% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
53.9%
Top 23% in Georgia

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Braselton, GA: too few schools in 30517 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 $3,611 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.88% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,850, below the $2,061 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,850 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $74,000 a year, about 63% of the median household income here of $118,034.

The typical renter household here spends 25% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $2,061 a month.

A median home at $411,200 costs 3.3 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $123,870, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Rent as a share of income
25.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.3×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,850
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$2,061
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$411,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 30517’s median household income of $118,034, 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 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Georgia’s figure2026 Q2+56.5%89th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Georgia’s figure2026 Q2+115.5%80th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.42024 ACS 5-Year3.3Bottom 31%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year79.3%51st percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3622024 ACS 5-Year7,01377th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,660Bottom 28%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,300Bottom 36%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,850Bottom 32%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$4012024 ACS 5-Year$2,061Bottom 7%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,6682024 ACS 5-Year$411,20081st percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$2872024 ACS 5-Year$3,61177th percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$11,3682024 ACS 5-Year$123,870Top 14%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.09%2024 ACS 5-Year0.88%48th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year25.3%Top 34%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±812024 ACS 5-Year5063rd percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.7%45th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year5.6%41st percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1602024 ACS 5-Year44071st percentileof 33,7722024 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 32% of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

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.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 309 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

At 20.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Braselton, GA, which contains 30517, rather than for 30517 alone.

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

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Braselton, GA, the city containing this ZIP code.

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, 10.0 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 46% 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. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

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.

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 30517 (Jackson County) rather than 30517 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read 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.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Braselton carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
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 50 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year97.4%Top 10%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle50 miBottom 14%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 9%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.3%Top 15%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL50 mi12,390 ft
Donaldson FldGYH92 mi8,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL115 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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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
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
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
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.

30517 vs Braselton

How this ZIP area compares with Braselton as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

30517
Braselton
Median household income: Braselton is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$118,034
vs
$120,984
Per capita income: Braselton is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$52,645
vs
$58,658
Population density
687/sq mi
vs
1,142/sq mi
Median home value
$411,200
vs
$459,400
Median gross rent: 30517 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$2,061
vs
$2,082
Homeownership rate
79.3%
vs
74.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher: Braselton is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
38.3%
vs
44.6%
Poverty rate: Braselton is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
7.1%
vs
5.9%
Median age
39.2
vs
40.5

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.