Carrollton, Georgia

Area Profile

27,392 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Carrollton, in Carroll County.

71out of 100
Area Score
Top 17% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 30% of 3,904 published cities66
SchoolsTop 27% of 2,668 published cities70
GrowthTop 1% of 2,973 published cities87
Housing affordability3383rd of 4,223 published cities60
ClimateTop 24% of 4,223 published cities77
Physical resilienceTop 33% of 4,182 published cities73
Access3446th of 4,226 published cities77
Economic stability3440th of 4,226 published cities41
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.1% and median household income $54,379, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 354 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 205% on the prior year.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.7 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 24% of it.

At a glance

Population
27,392
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$54,379
Bottom 30% nationally
Density
1,188/sq mi
23.1 sq mi of land
Median age
28.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Carroll County
Georgia
Metro area
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
Nearest major airport
ATL
38 mi · Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl
Median home value
$311,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 59% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.3% over the past year, to 13,777 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 76% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,938$54,379Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,463$32,873Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate25.4%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.7 minBottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher35.2%Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment13,777Bottom 11%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.8%Top 16%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.3%Top 10%June 2026
Labor force14,367Bottom 11%June 2026
Labor force participation62.9%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,900Top 38%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$51,170Bottom 49%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.2%Bottom 35%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.52.8
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.1% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202454k44k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $54,379 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 — Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons84,970$32,850
Fast Food and Counter Workers80,730$27,780
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand78,460$39,020
General and Operations Managers69,320$111,410
Customer Service Representatives59,990$42,710
Registered Nurses56,460$100,490

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.

46% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 45% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
45.7%
Top 23% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
44.5%
Top 29% in Georgia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Carrollton Elementary SchoolCarrollton City1,89414.848%42%
Carrollton High SchoolCarrollton City1,85916.9
Central High SchoolCarroll County1,33819.7
Carrollton Middle SchoolCarrollton City1,28016.834%48%
Central Middle SchoolCarroll County1,00914.852%57%
Central Elementary SchoolCarroll County99113.857%52%
Carrollton Upper ElementaryCarrollton City81714.952%42%
Sand Hill Elementary SchoolCarroll County73315.647%32%
Mount Zion Elementary SchoolCarroll County64014.950%39%
Sharp Creek Elementary SchoolCarroll County54711.433%34%
Mt. Zion High SchoolCarroll County49617.7
Mt. Zion Middle SchoolCarroll County40415.522%47%

51.7% 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 $1,089 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.7 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
24.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,089
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$311,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.72Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate41.0%Bottom 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±50010,843Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$69$1,089Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,640$311,100Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income24.0%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.8%Bottom 42%2024 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 →
Development Momentum
87/ 100
Top 1% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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 6% since 2020, reaching 28,306 in 2024.

67% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 12.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
354
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
12.9
Top 8% nationally
Year over year
+205%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
66.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202428k27k
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.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202220232024202515487
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+33%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 32°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.5 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CARROLLTON, 1.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation53.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low32°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing37°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

73 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, cold wave and earthquake.

TornadoHigh
WildfireModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HailModerate
Heat waveModerate
Cold waveModerate
LightningModerate
HurricaneModerate
Strong windModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, ice storm, winter weather.

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.

Carroll County records 4.2 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 14.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 19.7 per 100,000 residents in Carroll County.

Homicide
4.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
19.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.2
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 Carroll 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 Carrollton rather than Carrollton 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

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 38 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL38 mi12,390 ft
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth IntlBHM96 mi12,007 ft
Montgomery Rgnl (Dannelly Fld)MGM117 mi9,020 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
AtlantaFulton County505,26871vs Carrollton
South FultonFulton County110,47168vs Carrollton
Sandy SpringsFulton County107,08778vs Carrollton
RoswellFulton County92,62180vs Carrollton
Johns CreekFulton County81,98876vs Carrollton
MabletonCobb County77,678vs Carrollton
AlpharettaFulton County66,85584vs Carrollton
MariettaCobb County62,26372vs Carrollton
StonecrestDeKalb County60,50160vs Carrollton
BrookhavenDeKalb County57,85573vs Carrollton
SmyrnaCobb County56,63374vs Carrollton
DunwoodyDeKalb County51,75874vs Carrollton

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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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

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 Carrollton

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3011739,804$61,84273
3011622,189$77,03078