30813 — Grovetown, Georgia

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 30813. Its median home value runs 13% above Grovetown as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

71out of 100
Area Score
Top 11% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 4% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured83
SchoolsTop 37% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured60
GrowthTop 17% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured68
Housing affordabilityTop 24% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured76
ClimateTop 48% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured71
Physical resilience1,573rd of 3,127 ZIP areas measured58
AccessTop 48% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured93
Economic stability1,792nd of 3,127 ZIP areas measured50
The quick read

30813 ranks in the top 4% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.1% and median household income of $86,923. The unemployment rate is published for Grovetown, GA, which contains 30813, rather than for 30813 alone.

In the public schools here, 49% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.8 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 119 units authorized over the past twelve months, 35% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Grovetown, GA, which contains 30813, rather than for 30813 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
52,466
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$86,923
Top 30% nationally
Density
1,041/sq mi
50.4 sq mi of land
Median age
34.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Grovetown
Georgia
Nearest major airport
AGS
17 mi · Augusta Rgnl At Bush Fld
Median home value
$287,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Grovetown, GA, which contains 30813, is 3.1%, lower than in 91% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Grovetown, GA, which contains 30813, grew 2.1% over the past year, to 73,874 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsColumbia County, GA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$67,23549th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftColumbia County, GA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$70,04652nd percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$5,3002024 ACS 5-Year$86,923Top 30%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,2982024 ACS 5-Year$37,029Top 48%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year7.7%Top 36%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.6 min2024 ACS 5-Year28.5 minBottom 46%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year32.1%Top 31%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year78.9%62nd percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentGrovetown, GA’s figureJuly 202673,874Top 37%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Grovetown, GA’s figureJuly 2026+3.6%Top 11%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Grovetown, GA’s figureJuly 2026+2.1%Top 9%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceGrovetown, GA’s figureJuly 202676,23962nd percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year77.5%Bottom 47%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageAugusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$60,020Bottom 22%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageAugusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$45,990Bottom 14%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%63rd percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Grovetown, GA’s figureJuly 2026−0.3%Top 38%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateGrovetown, GA’s figureJuly 20263.1%Top 9%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year12.6%64th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202487k77k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $86,923 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 — Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers8,710$26,620
Retail Salespersons6,930$29,350
Registered Nurses6,880$87,760
Cashiers6,040$28,310
General and Operations Managers4,230$102,360
Home Health and Personal Care Aides3,920$28,730

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Grovetown, GA, the city containing this ZIP code.

49% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 46% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.8 students for every full-time teacher across 8 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
49.1%
Top 35% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
46.0%
Top 41% in Georgia
All 8 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Grovetown High SchoolColumbia County2,25618.550%43%
Grovetown Middle SchoolColumbia County1,06716.228%42%
Cedar Ridge Elementary SchoolColumbia County1,06015.653%52%
Baker Place ElementaryColumbia County95815.565%59%
Grovetown Elementary SchoolColumbia County90814.049%38%
Columbia Middle SchoolColumbia County90315.647%47%
Euchee Creek Elementary SchoolColumbia County70514.750%47%
Brookwood Elementary SchoolColumbia County55912.754%42%

49.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

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.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 9% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 91.2, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area is up 49% over five years, and up 5.0% 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 $2,506 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.87% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,680, some 13% above the $1,483 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,680 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $67,200 a year, about 77% of the median household income here of $86,923.

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 $1,483 a month.

A median home at $287,600 costs 2.8 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $103,776, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
91.2

Prices here run about 9% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
28.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,680
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,483
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$287,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 30813’s median household income of $86,923, 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
Cost of living indexthe Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area’s figure202391.2Top 15%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+5.0%80th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+49.2%72nd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+102.5%61st percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year2.8Bottom 48%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year72.8%35th percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,0042024 ACS 5-Year19,11096th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,480Bottom 37%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,170Bottom 42%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,680Bottom 42%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1112024 ACS 5-Year$1,483Bottom 22%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,2292024 ACS 5-Year$287,60065th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1242024 ACS 5-Year$2,50661st percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$10,7962024 ACS 5-Year$103,776Top 27%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.05%2024 ACS 5-Year0.87%47th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year28.3%Top 50%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1742024 ACS 5-Year16082nd percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.8%47th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year10.4%68th percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±5792024 ACS 5-Year2,14697th 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 and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

68/ 100
Top 17% 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 119 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 17% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Grovetown, GA, which contains 30813, rather than for 30813 alone.

At 7.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Grovetown, GA, which contains 30813, rather than for 30813 alone.

Units permitted
119
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
7.0
Top 21% nationally
Year over year
−35%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
16.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.7%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
56%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$67,235
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$70,046
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Richmond County, GA 3,415 people · 28% of arrivals
  2. Aiken County, SC 451 people · 3.7% of arrivals
  3. McDuffie County, GA 279 people · 2.3% of arrivals
  4. Anne Arundel County, MD 157 people · 1.3% of arrivals
  5. Honolulu County, HI 151 people · 1.3% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Richmond County, GA 2,634 people · 24% of departures
  2. Aiken County, SC 587 people · 5.3% of departures
  3. McDuffie County, GA 321 people · 2.9% of departures
  4. Lincoln County, GA 145 people · 1.3% of departures
  5. Honolulu County, HI 137 people · 1.2% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Columbia County, GA. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

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

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 40°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 44.8 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station AUGUSTA DANIEL FLD AP, 10.9 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals44.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals40°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals35°F1991-2020 Normals

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

Physical risk

58 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and earthquake, with inland flooding alone responsible for 60% of it. Tornado is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

Ice stormModerate
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, heat wave, strong wind, hail, wildfire, cold wave, landslide, winter weather, drought, 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
5.7
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.5
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
15.7
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
12.7
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 30813 (Columbia County) rather than 30813 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. Grovetown 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.
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. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Augusta Rgnl At Bush Fld at 17 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year92.6%Top 32%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle17 miTop 47%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 21%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.3%Top 21%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Augusta Rgnl At Bush FldAGS17 mi8,001 ft
Columbia MetroCAE72 mi8,601 ft
Donaldson FldGYH90 mi8,000 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)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
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
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.

30813 vs Grovetown

How this ZIP area compares with Grovetown 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.

30813
Grovetown
Median household income: 30813 is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$86,923
vs
$85,660
Per capita income: Grovetown is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$37,029
vs
$37,553
Population density
1,041/sq mi
vs
3,227/sq mi
Median home value
$287,600
vs
$254,300
Median gross rent: Grovetown is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$1,483
vs
$1,407
Homeownership rate
72.8%
vs
59.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 30813 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
32.1%
vs
29.2%
Poverty rate: 30813 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
7.7%
vs
11.2%
Median age
34.3
vs
34.3

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.