Newnan, Georgia

Area Profile

44,235 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Newnan, in Coweta County.

73out of 100
Area Score
Top 10% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 5% of 3,904 published cities82
SchoolsTop 36% of 2,668 published cities63
GrowthTop 40% of 2,973 published cities56
Housing affordability2585th of 4,223 published cities74
ClimateTop 23% of 4,223 published cities77
Physical resilienceTop 22% of 4,182 published cities81
Access3312th of 4,226 published cities80
Economic stabilityTop 38% of 4,226 published cities66
The quick read

Newnan ranks in the top 5% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $82,292.

In the public schools here, 35% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.3 students for every teacher.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Newnan in the top 22% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
44,235
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$82,292
Top 31% nationally
Density
2,225/sq mi
19.9 sq mi of land
Median age
35.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Coweta County
Georgia
Metro area
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
Nearest major airport
ATL
27 mi · Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl
Median home value
$364,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 89% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.4% over the past year, to 23,157 employed residents.

41% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 82% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$9,929$82,292Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,836$42,927Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.6%Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.6 minTop 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher40.7%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment23,157Bottom 30%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.9%Top 23%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.4%Top 9%June 2026
Labor force23,956Bottom 29%June 2026
Labor force participation66.4%Top 29%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)0.0%Bottom 45%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 11%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.22.5
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.3% 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
202120222023202482k72k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $82,292 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.

35% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 40% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
19
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
35.2%
Top 40% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
40.2%
Top 37% in Georgia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Newnan High SchoolCoweta County2,21416.0
Northgate High SchoolCoweta County2,14217.7
Welch Elementary SchoolCoweta County1,01214.729%30%
Newnan Crossing Elementary SchoolCoweta County91215.040%40%
Brooks ElementaryCoweta County83516.166%66%
Madras Middle SchoolCoweta County75414.537%57%
Arnall Middle SchoolCoweta County74013.727%37%
Evans Middle SchoolCoweta County73613.617%37%
White Oak Elementary SchoolCoweta County71214.845%44%
Smokey Road Middle SchoolCoweta County56312.517%27%
Elm Street Elementary SchoolCoweta County47714.553%52%
Western Elementary SchoolCoweta County45513.430%28%

50.5% 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 $1,542 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.4 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
22.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,542
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$364,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.43Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate58.2%Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±65318,160Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$98$1,542Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,968$364,700Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.5%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.4%Bottom 31%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
56/ 100
Top 40% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing — 2 consecutive years, 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 45,548 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 2.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
112
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.5
Top 48% nationally
Year over year
−15%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202446k43k
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
2020202220232024202529771
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−26%).

Weather & climate

7 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 34°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 49.3 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ATLANTA, 12.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation49.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing36°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

81 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, hail and lightning.

HailModerate
Ice stormModerate
LightningModerate
EarthquakeModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, strong wind, inland flooding, heat wave, cold wave, hurricane, wildfire, landslide, 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.

Coweta County records 4.7 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 13.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.2 per 100,000 residents in Coweta County.

Homicide
4.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
13.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.4
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 Coweta 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 Newnan rather than Newnan 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

1 major airport lies within 100 miles, the nearest 27 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL27 mi12,390 ft
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth IntlBHM115 mi12,007 ft
Montgomery Rgnl (Dannelly Fld)MGM120 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 Newnan
South FultonFulton County110,47168vs Newnan
Sandy SpringsFulton County107,08778vs Newnan
RoswellFulton County92,62180vs Newnan
Johns CreekFulton County81,98876vs Newnan
MabletonCobb County77,678vs Newnan
AlpharettaFulton County66,85584vs Newnan
MariettaCobb County62,26372vs Newnan
StonecrestDeKalb County60,50160vs Newnan
BrookhavenDeKalb County57,85573vs Newnan
SmyrnaCobb County56,63374vs Newnan
DunwoodyDeKalb County51,75874vs Newnan

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.

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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 Newnan

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3026361,695$78,99274
3026539,942$108,14477