Brunswick, Georgia

Area Profile

15,307 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Brunswick, in Glynn County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 22% of 3,904 cities measured70
Schools1381st of 2,668 cities measured50
Housing affordability3007th of 4,223 cities measured67
ClimateTop 13% of 4,223 cities measured81
Physical resilience2877th of 4,182 cities measured41
AccessTop 14% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stability4137th of 4,226 cities measured21
The quick read

Brunswick ranks in the top 22% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.0% and median household income of $40,288.

In the public schools here, 30% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.7 students for every teacher.

A major airport is 8 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
15,307
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$40,288
Bottom 11% nationally
Density
898/sq mi
17.0 sq mi of land
Median age
38.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Glynn County
Georgia
Metro area
Brunswick-St. Simons, GA
Nearest major airport
BQK
8 mi · Brunswick Golden Isles
Median home value
$155,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.0% is lower than 96% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.7% over the past year, to 42,641 employed residents.

Median household income of $40,288 is below 89% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,184$40,288Bottom 11%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,380$25,465Bottom 21%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate30.9%Top 10%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.5 minBottom 16%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher19.4%Bottom 47%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment42,641Bottom 46%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)4.2%Top 9%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.7%Top 6%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force43,967Bottom 46%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation50.8%Bottom 23%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$55,010Bottom 5%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$41,940Bottom 2%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 45%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.0%Bottom 4%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202440k29k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $40,288 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.
Largest occupations — Brunswick-St. Simons, GA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons1,790$30,200
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,620$26,770
Waiters and Waitresses1,510$18,250
Cashiers1,340$27,810
Registered Nurses1,010$82,630
General and Operations Managers1,000$84,770

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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

30% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 34% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.7 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
29.5%
Bottom 48% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
33.7%
Bottom 47% in Georgia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Brunswick High SchoolGlynn County1,95115.6
Glynn AcademyGlynn County1,91116.9
Glynn Middle SchoolGlynn County73514.442%62%
Burroughs-Molette Elementary SchoolGlynn County54610.920%13%
Goodyear Elementary SchoolGlynn County51511.722%15%
Morningstar Treatment Services- Inc. Youth EstateGlynn County235.8

80.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Georgia’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $951 takes 28% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.9 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
28.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$951
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$155,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.87Top 29%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate43.4%Bottom 6%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4627,294Top 8%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$113$951Bottom 48%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$51,097$155,900Bottom 39%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income28.3%Top 9%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate13.7%Top 37%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

Population has grown 2% since 2020, reaching 15,520 in 2024.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202416k15k
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.

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 45.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station BRUNSWICK MALCOLM MCKINNON AP, 4.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index56.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation45.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index39.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing31°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
56
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

41 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, coastal flooding and wildfire.

HurricaneHigh
WildfireElevated
Coastal floodingElevated
EarthquakeModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, cold wave, ice storm, strong wind, inland flooding, hail, tornado, winter weather, drought, landslide.

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.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Glynn County records 4.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 13.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.5 per 100,000 residents in Glynn County.

Homicide
4.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
13.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
16.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Glynn County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Brunswick rather than Brunswick itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 8 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Brunswick Golden IslesBQK8 mi8,001 ft
Jacksonville IntlJAX46 mi10,000 ft
Savannah/Hilton Head IntlSAV70 mi9,351 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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Other cities in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
St. SimonsGlynn County16,228vs Brunswick

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 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 browse every source.

ZIP codes in Brunswick

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3152022,313$40,071