Fortson, GA
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Fortson, GA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 6,679. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet FORTSON-GA · Fortson, GA 1 ZIPs · 6,679 pop · #3155/25278 · Harris County
INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID
- INC-HIGH $109,294
- RANK-TOP #3155/25278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ellerslie
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-HIGH 95% owners
- POP-TOWN 6,679
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-MID $291,700
Nearest income peer: Ellerslie, GA (+ $51 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Fortson
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Fortson on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Pine Mountain · lowest
Pine Mountain · lowest
$66,302 median HH income
- Hamilton · near
Hamilton · near
$90,385 median HH income
- Waverly Hall · near
Waverly Hall · near
$98,214 median HH income
- Cataula · near
Cataula · near
$103,095 median HH income
- Fortson · this city
Fortson · this city
$109,294 median HH income
- Ellerslie · highest
Ellerslie · highest
$109,345 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Fortson, GA sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- Top 12%
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 6,679
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $109,294
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $109,294 and home value $291,700 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 43.2%.
Owner-occupancy here runs high (95.4%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.
Within Georgia, Saint Simons Island is the closest lower-income city and Ellerslie the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Fortson.
ZIP Codes in Fortson, GA
These ZIP codes sit in Harris County, which covers 8 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Fortson. See the Harris County roll-up →
No other city sharing Harris County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Fortson. Cataula, Pine Mountain and Hamilton sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Pine Mountain marks the far end of that range at $66,302, 39% below Fortson.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31808 | 6,679 | 50 | America/New_York |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Fortson, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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