Barnesville, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Barnesville city is a mid-size town in Georgia, with 6,070 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #150 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 77% of them. The median age here is 28.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Barnesville city earn a median of $58,317 a year, 25.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $57,300 median for the 378 Georgia cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Barnesville city is valued at $172,700, 43.1% below the national figure and 10% below the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $902 a month, 35.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,824 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 52.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 28.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.