East Griffin, GA population, income and ZIP codes

East Griffin CDP is a small town in Georgia, with 1,219 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #355 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 47% 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. 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 East Griffin CDP earn a median of $44,219 a year, 43.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% below the $57,300 median for the 378 Georgia cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 31.7% 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 East Griffin CDP is valued at $62,500, 79.4% below the national figure and 67% below the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,162 a month, 17.4% below the national figure, or roughly $13,944 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.4×, 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. 54.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

East Griffin CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.5% of median income while homes cost only 1.4× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.