31326 — Rincon, Georgia

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 31326. Its median household income runs 12% above Rincon as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

71out of 100
Area Score
Top 12% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 3% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured84
SchoolsTop 9% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured82
GrowthTop 19% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured66
Housing affordabilityTop 7% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured84
ClimateTop 42% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured72
Physical resilience2,459th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured28
AccessTop 24% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured97
Economic stabilityTop 24% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured69
The quick read

31326 ranks in the top 3% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 2.6% and median household income of $83,145. The unemployment rate is published for Rincon, GA, which contains 31326, rather than for 31326 alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 63% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 9% of published profiles for schools.

56 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 8% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Rincon, GA, which contains 31326, rather than for 31326 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
23,940
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$83,145
Top 34% nationally
Density
349/sq mi
68.6 sq mi of land
Median age
37.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Rincon
Georgia
Metro area
Nearest major airport
SAV
12 mi · Savannah/Hilton Head Intl
Median home value
$279,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Rincon, GA, which contains 31326, is 2.6%, lower than in 98% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Rincon, GA, which contains 31326, grew 1.5% over the past year, to 36,223 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsEffingham County, GA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$63,43740th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftEffingham County, GA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$58,96229th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,9282024 ACS 5-Year$83,145Top 34%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,7972024 ACS 5-Year$42,214Top 33%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year5.2%Top 21%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year33.2 minBottom 24%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year28.7%Top 37%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year81.3%71st percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentRincon, GA’s figureJuly 202636,223Bottom 39%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Rincon, GA’s figureJuly 2026+5.6%Top 5%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Rincon, GA’s figureJuly 2026+1.5%Top 13%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceRincon, GA’s figureJuly 202637,17239th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year80.3%Top 41%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageSavannah, GA Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$58,750Bottom 17%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageSavannah, GA Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$47,240Bottom 26%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.9%2024 ACS 5-Year1.0%80th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Rincon, GA’s figureJuly 2026−0.1%Bottom 47%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateRincon, GA’s figureJuly 20262.6%Top 2%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year6.9%34th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202483k68k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $83,145 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 — Savannah, GA

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand7,810$38,250
Retail Salespersons6,820$30,160
Fast Food and Counter Workers5,710$27,460
Waiters and Waitresses4,940$20,830
Cashiers4,470$29,140
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers4,410$58,930

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 Rincon, GA, the city containing this ZIP code.

63% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 57% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.4 students for every full-time teacher across 4 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
63.2%
Top 11% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
57.5%
Top 17% in Georgia
All 4 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Ebenezer Middle SchoolEffingham County1,03915.558%54%
Rincon Elementary SchoolEffingham County1,03314.367%58%
Ebenezer Elementary SchoolEffingham County99514.065%60%
Blandford Elementary SchoolEffingham County98713.763%58%

50.4% 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 4% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 95.9, 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 Savannah, GA Metro Area is up 64% 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 $2,466 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 $1,680, some 43% above the $1,175 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 81% of the median household income here of $83,145.

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 $1,175 a month.

A median home at $279,300 costs 2.8 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $100,522, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
95.9

Prices here run about 4% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Savannah, GA 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
25.0%
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
$1,175
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$279,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 31326’s median household income of $83,145, 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 Savannah, GA Metro Area’s figure202395.9Top 40%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Savannah, GA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.4%54th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Savannah, GA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+63.5%98th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Savannah, GA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+120.5%87th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.42024 ACS 5-Year2.8Bottom 47%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year72.0%33rd percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4672024 ACS 5-Year9,74783rd percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,533Bottom 33%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,235Bottom 40%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,680Bottom 42%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1462024 ACS 5-Year$1,175Bottom 37%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,7482024 ACS 5-Year$279,30064th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$992024 ACS 5-Year$2,46661st percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$11,5802024 ACS 5-Year$100,522Top 30%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.07%2024 ACS 5-Year0.88%48th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year25.0%Top 32%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1352024 ACS 5-Year18184th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year1.9%58th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year4.3%31st percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2222024 ACS 5-Year59777th 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

66/ 100
Top 19% 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 56 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 18% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Rincon, GA, which contains 31326, rather than for 31326 alone.

At 4.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Rincon, GA, which contains 31326, rather than for 31326 alone.

Units permitted
56
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.9
Top 33% nationally
Year over year
+8%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
17.9%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+2.3%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
42%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$63,437
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$58,962
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Chatham County, GA 1,988 people · 37% of arrivals
  2. Bryan County, GA 218 people · 4.1% of arrivals
  3. Bulloch County, GA 186 people · 3.5% of arrivals
  4. Beaufort County, SC 156 people · 2.9% of arrivals
  5. Jasper County, SC 90 people · 1.7% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Chatham County, GA 1,119 people · 28% of departures
  2. Bulloch County, GA 344 people · 8.5% of departures
  3. Bryan County, GA 203 people · 5.0% of departures
  4. Liberty County, GA 117 people · 2.9% of departures
  5. Screven County, GA 112 people · 2.8% 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 Effingham 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 Rincon, 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 92°F and January a low of 40°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 48.1 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SAVANNAH INTL AP, 11.5 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND6.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals48.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals40°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals32°F1991-2020 Normals

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

Physical risk

28 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, inland flooding and heat wave, with hurricane alone responsible for 42% of it. Inland flooding and heat wave are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

HurricaneElevated
EarthquakeElevated
WildfireModerate
LightningModerate
TornadoModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, inland flooding, drought, cold wave, ice storm, hail, coastal flooding, winter weather, strong wind, landslide, tsunami, volcanic activity, 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
7.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.8
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
11.8
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
16.8
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 31326 (Effingham County) rather than 31326 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. Rincon 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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Savannah/Hilton Head Intl at 12 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year87.5%Bottom 41%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle12 miTop 32%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle4Bottom 40%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year6.5%Top 42%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Savannah/Hilton Head IntlSAV12 mi9,351 ft
Brunswick Golden IslesBQK73 mi8,001 ft
Charleston AFB/IntlCHS80 mi9,001 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.

31326 vs Rincon

How this ZIP area compares with Rincon 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.

31326
Rincon
Median household income: 31326 is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$83,145
vs
$74,417
Per capita income: 31326 is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$42,214
vs
$36,730
Population density
349/sq mi
vs
1,163/sq mi
Median home value
$279,300
vs
$251,600
Median gross rent: 31326 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$1,175
vs
$1,245
Homeownership rate
72.0%
vs
61.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 31326 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
28.7%
vs
25.2%
Poverty rate: 31326 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
5.2%
vs
8.2%
Median age
37.3
vs
34.2

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.