What is the population of Griffin city?

Griffin city has 23,650 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #50 of 675 in Georgia.

What is the median household income in Griffin city?

Median household income in Griffin city is $44,021 a year, 43.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,034 a month and the median home value is $195,100, so rent absorbs about 28.2% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 4.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Griffin city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Griffin, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Griffin, Georgia (Griffin, GA — Census place “Griffin city”) is 23,650 residents, ranking #50 of 675 places in Georgia. Median household income is $44,021, the median home is worth $195,100 and median gross rent runs $1,034 a month. Looking for the Griffin Georgia ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Griffin, GA: 30223, 30224.

Population: 23,650Griffin city residents
Median household income: $44,021Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $195,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,034Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 39.5%Owner-occupied households

Griffin ZIP codes (Georgia)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Griffin.

The Griffin GA ZIP code list below covers 2 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Griffin city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Griffin city median would spend about 28.2% 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 4.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 25.5% of residents and 39.5% of households own their home.

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

Griffin city, GA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Griffin city is a mid-size town in Georgia, with 23,650 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #50 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 35.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Griffin city earn a median of $44,021 a year, 43.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% 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 25.5% 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 Griffin city is valued at $195,100, 35.7% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,034 a month, 26.5% below the national figure, or roughly $12,408 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 39.5% 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 Griffin city?: Griffin city has 23,650 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #50 of 675 in Georgia.
What is the median household income in Griffin city?: Median household income in Griffin city is $44,021 a year, 43.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Griffin city?: Median gross rent is $1,034 a month and the median home value is $195,100, so rent absorbs about 28.2% of median household income.
Is Griffin city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Griffin city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Griffin city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.