What is the population of Ellijay city?

Ellijay city has 1,931 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #300 of 675 in Georgia.

What is the median household income in Ellijay city?

Median household income in Ellijay city is $47,639 a year, 39.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ellijay city?

Median gross rent is $728 a month and the median home value is $277,600, so rent absorbs about 18.3% of median household income.

Is Ellijay city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 5.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ellijay city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Ellijay, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Ellijay, Georgia (Ellijay, GA — Census place “Ellijay city”) is 1,931 residents, ranking #300 of 675 places in Georgia. Median household income is $47,639, the median home is worth $277,600 and median gross rent runs $728 a month. Looking for the Ellijay Georgia ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Ellijay, GA: 30540.

Population: 1,931Ellijay city residents
Median household income: $47,639Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $277,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $728Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 33.7%Owner-occupied households

Ellijay ZIP codes (Georgia)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Ellijay.

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

30540

What the numbers mean in Ellijay city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Ellijay city median would spend about 18.3% 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 5.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 22.2% of residents and 33.7% of households own their home.

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

Ellijay city, GA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Ellijay city is a small town in Georgia, with 1,931 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #300 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 55% of them. The median age here is 40.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Ellijay city earn a median of $47,639 a year, 39.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 17% below the $57,300 median for the 378 Georgia cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 22.2% 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 Ellijay city is valued at $277,600, 8.5% below the national figure and 45% above the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $728 a month, 48.2% below the national figure, or roughly $8,736 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.3% 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 5.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 33.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Ellijay city?: Ellijay city has 1,931 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #300 of 675 in Georgia.
What is the median household income in Ellijay city?: Median household income in Ellijay city is $47,639 a year, 39.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ellijay city?: Median gross rent is $728 a month and the median home value is $277,600, so rent absorbs about 18.3% of median household income.
Is Ellijay city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 5.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ellijay city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Ellijay city 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.