What is the population of Chester town?

Chester town has 1,708 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #318 of 675 in Georgia.

What is the median household income in Chester town?

Median household income in Chester town is $47,500 a year, 39.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Chester town?

Median gross rent is $392 a month and the median home value is $78,300, so rent absorbs about 9.9% of median household income.

Is Chester town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Chester town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 9.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Chester, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Chester, Georgia (Chester, GA — Census place “Chester town”) is 1,708 residents, ranking #318 of 675 places in Georgia. Median household income is $47,500, the median home is worth $78,300 and median gross rent runs $392 a month. Looking for the Chester Georgia ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Chester, GA: 31012.

Population: 1,708Chester town residents
Median household income: $47,500Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $78,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $392Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 56.5%Owner-occupied households

Chester ZIP codes (Georgia)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Chester.

The Chester GA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

31012

What the numbers mean in Chester town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Chester town median would spend about 9.9% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 36.2% of residents and 56.5% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Chester town, GA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Chester town is a small town in Georgia, with 1,708 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #318 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 52% of them. The median age here is 37.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Chester town earn a median of $47,500 a year, 39.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 17% below the $57,300 median for the 378 Georgia cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 36.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chester town is valued at $78,300, 74.2% below the national figure and 59% below the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $392 a month, 72.1% below the national figure, or roughly $4,704 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 9.9% 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 1.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 56.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Chester town?: Chester town has 1,708 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #318 of 675 in Georgia.
What is the median household income in Chester town?: Median household income in Chester town is $47,500 a year, 39.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Chester town?: Median gross rent is $392 a month and the median home value is $78,300, so rent absorbs about 9.9% of median household income.
Is Chester town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Chester town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 9.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Chester town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.