Snellville, Georgia

Area Profile

21,620 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Snellville, in Gwinnett County.

72out of 100
Area Score
Top 13% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 4% of 3,904 published cities83
SchoolsTop 40% of 2,668 published cities59
GrowthTop 16% of 2,973 published cities70
Housing affordability2330th of 4,223 published cities77
ClimateTop 21% of 4,223 published cities78
Physical resilienceTop 47% of 4,182 published cities62
Access3359th of 4,226 published cities79
Economic stability2334th of 4,226 published cities58
The quick read

Snellville ranks in the top 4% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.4% and median household income of $89,896.

In the public schools here, 35% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.6 students for every teacher.

86 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 13% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

At a glance

Population
21,620
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$89,896
Top 25% nationally
Density
2,060/sq mi
10.5 sq mi of land
Median age
38.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Gwinnett County
Georgia
Metro area
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
Nearest major airport
ATL
29 mi · Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl
Median home value
$335,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.4% is lower than 87% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.2% over the past year, to 512,145 employed residents.

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 77% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,651$89,896Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,084$36,556Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.9%Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute40.4 minTop 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher36.2%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment512,145Top 13%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.6%Top 17%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.2%Top 11%June 2026
Labor force529,962Top 13%June 2026
Labor force participation62.7%Top 43%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 rate3.4%Bottom 13%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202490k84k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $89,896 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.

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

35% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 38% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
14
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
34.6%
Top 43% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
38.2%
Top 42% in Georgia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Brookwood High SchoolGwinnett County3,80318.4
South Gwinnett High SchoolGwinnett County2,63916.9
Shiloh High SchoolGwinnett County2,09615.9
Shiloh Middle SchoolGwinnett County1,59214.017%22%
Brookwood Elementary SchoolGwinnett County1,42214.867%67%
Norton Elementary SchoolGwinnett County1,04213.021%27%
Snellville Middle SchoolGwinnett County82013.717%27%
Pharr Elementary SchoolGwinnett County81611.759%63%
Partee Elementary SchoolGwinnett County77511.940%47%
Shiloh Elementary SchoolGwinnett County71111.343%36%
Annistown Elementary SchoolGwinnett County68612.935%40%
Anderson-Livsey Elementary SchoolGwinnett County67812.123%27%

65.3% 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 $1,818 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
24.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,818
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$335,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.73Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate78.3%Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4817,757Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$124$1,818Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,978$335,000Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income24.3%Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.0%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
70/ 100
Top 16% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, 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 8% since 2020, reaching 22,336 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before.

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

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 19% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 4.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
86
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.0
Top 36% nationally
Year over year
+13%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
18.6%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202422k21k
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
2020202220232024202513860
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−41%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 89°F and January a low of 33°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 53, in the Moderate band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ATLANTA PEACHTREE AP, 17.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index70.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation51.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low33°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high89°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index53.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing37°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
53
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
70
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
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

62 / 100
Physical resilience

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

LightningModerate
HailModerate
TornadoModerate
EarthquakeModerate
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, ice storm, cold wave, heat wave, strong wind, hurricane, winter weather, wildfire.

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.

Gwinnett County records 5.4 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 11.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.4 per 100,000 residents in Gwinnett County.

Homicide
5.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.7
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 Gwinnett 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 Snellville rather than Snellville 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 29 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL29 mi12,390 ft
Donaldson FldGYH112 mi8,000 ft
Augusta Rgnl At Bush FldAGS122 mi8,001 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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Other cities in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

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

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
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 Snellville

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3003952,783$93,70171
3007841,597$98,25776