30038 — Stonecrest, Georgia

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 30038. Its median household income runs 14% above Stonecrest as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

61out of 100
Area Score
Top 39% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 15 sources
OpportunityTop 33% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured63
Schools2,476th of 3,047 ZIP areas measured25
GrowthTop 46% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured52
Housing affordabilityTop 44% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured70
ClimateTop 20% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured78
Physical resilienceTop 34% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured71
Access2,097th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured86
Economic stability2,113th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured44
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.3% and median household income $73,694, putting employment conditions in the middle range of ZIP areas measured. The unemployment rate is published for Stonecrest, GA, which contains 30038, rather than for 30038 alone.

In the public schools here, 22% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.7 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 31% of renter income here, above the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 2.8 times what its owners earn.

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At a glance

Population
43,776
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$73,694
Top 47% nationally
Density
1,520/sq mi
28.8 sq mi of land
Median age
37.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Stonecrest
Georgia
Nearest major airport
ATL
17 mi · Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl
Median home value
$247,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Stonecrest, GA, which contains 30038, is 4.3%, lower than in 54% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Stonecrest, GA, which contains 30038, grew 1.0% over the past year, to 30,268 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 74% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsDeKalb County, GA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$68,59851st percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftDeKalb County, GA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$72,24957th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,9192024 ACS 5-Year$73,694Top 47%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,4842024 ACS 5-Year$35,326Bottom 46%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year13.0%Bottom 37%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.0 min2024 ACS 5-Year38.9 minBottom 9%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year35.4%Top 26%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year64.3%19th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentStonecrest, GA’s figureJuly 202630,268Bottom 33%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Stonecrest, GA’s figureJuly 2026+0.2%Top 44%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Stonecrest, GA’s figureJuly 2026+1.0%Top 18%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceStonecrest, GA’s figureJuly 202631,62433rd percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year82.6%Top 31%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageAtlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$71,900Top 27%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageAtlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$51,170Top 42%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.5%89th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Stonecrest, GA’s figureJuly 2026+0.1%Bottom 40%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateStonecrest, GA’s figureJuly 20264.3%Top 46%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year20.1%84th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202474k61k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $73,694 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

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 Stonecrest, GA, the city containing this ZIP code.

22% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 32% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.7 students for every full-time teacher across 9 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
21.6%
Bottom 6% in Georgia
Reading proficiency
31.6%
Bottom 28% in Georgia
All 9 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Martin Luther King- Jr. High SchoolDeKalb County1,37016.312%23%
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- MedicDeKalb County1,22416.834%57%
Flat Rock Elementary SchoolDeKalb County97715.514%22%
Salem Middle SchoolDeKalb County82712.716%20%
Edward L. Bouie- Sr. Elementary SchoolDeKalb County59916.244%50%
Murphey Candler Elementary SchoolDeKalb County51213.114%20%
Fairington Elementary SchoolDeKalb County46112.515%15%
Browns Mill Elementary SchoolDeKalb County41113.317%24%
Leadership Preparatory Academy · charterDeKalb County26811.741%52%

91.1% 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 at about the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 100.5, 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Division is up 43% over five years, and up 1.0% 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 $2,357 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.95% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,750, close to the $1,685 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,750 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $70,000 a year, about 95% of the median household income here of $73,694.

The typical renter household here spends 31% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,685 a month.

A median home at $247,000 costs 2.8 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $88,164, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
100.5

Prices here run at about the national average. Where places do differ, housing drives most of it — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, 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
31.3%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,750
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,685
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$247,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 30038’s median household income of $73,694, 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area’s figure2023100.5Bottom 45%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+1.0%21st percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+42.7%47th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+109.2%70th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year2.8Bottom 47%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year64.7%21st percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±7172024 ACS 5-Year17,11494th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,600Bottom 30%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,100Bottom 45%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,750Bottom 36%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$682024 ACS 5-Year$1,685Bottom 16%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$14,8972024 ACS 5-Year$247,00057th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1872024 ACS 5-Year$2,35758th percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$8,0722024 ACS 5-Year$88,164Top 43%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.10%2024 ACS 5-Year0.95%53rd percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year31.3%Bottom 33%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±302024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year14.5%82nd percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±4462024 ACS 5-Year2,47998th 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

52/ 100
Top 46% 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 96 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Stonecrest, GA, which contains 30038, rather than for 30038 alone.

At 1.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Stonecrest, GA, which contains 30038, rather than for 30038 alone.

Units permitted
96
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.6
Bottom 32% nationally
Year over year
+92%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
−1.4%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
36%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$68,598
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$72,249
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Fulton County, GA 11,968 people · 24% of arrivals
  2. Gwinnett County, GA 7,162 people · 14% of arrivals
  3. Clayton County, GA 2,655 people · 5.2% of arrivals
  4. Cobb County, GA 2,488 people · 4.9% of arrivals
  5. Rockdale County, GA 1,261 people · 2.5% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Fulton County, GA 12,335 people · 21% of departures
  2. Gwinnett County, GA 9,843 people · 17% of departures
  3. Cobb County, GA 3,337 people · 5.7% of departures
  4. Clayton County, GA 3,085 people · 5.3% of departures
  5. Rockdale County, GA 1,957 people · 3.3% 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 DeKalb 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 Stonecrest, GA, the city containing this ZIP code.

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.

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, 17.2 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year672024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals51.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals33°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals89°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year62024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year512024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals37°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
51
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
67
90th percentile index
Days above 100
6
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. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

71 / 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 63% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

LightningModerate
HailModerate
TornadoModerate
Ice stormModerate
EarthquakeModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, strong wind, cold wave, heat wave, hurricane, winter weather, wildfire, drought, coastal flooding, 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
12.6
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
17.3
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
14.9
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
9.4
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 30038 (DeKalb County) rather than 30038 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. Stonecrest 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.
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

1 major airport lies within 100 miles, the nearest Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Intl at 17 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year94.6%Top 22%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 cycle1Bottom 1%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.0%Top 19%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL17 mi12,390 ft
Donaldson FldGYH126 mi8,000 ft
Augusta Rgnl At Bush FldAGS127 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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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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
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.

30038 vs Stonecrest

How this ZIP area compares with Stonecrest 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.

30038
Stonecrest
Median household income: 30038 is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$73,694
vs
$64,591
Per capita income: 30038 is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$35,326
vs
$31,451
Population density
1,520/sq mi
vs
1,616/sq mi
Median home value
$247,000
vs
$243,500
Median gross rent: Stonecrest is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$1,685
vs
$1,601
Homeownership rate
64.7%
vs
56.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 30038 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
35.4%
vs
31.0%
Poverty rate: 30038 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
13.0%
vs
16.5%
Median age
37.6
vs
35.7

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.