Locust Grove, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Locust Grove city is a mid-size town in Georgia, with 9,931 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #115 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 35 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 Locust Grove city earn a median of $72,563 a year, 7.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% above 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 16.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Locust Grove city is valued at $261,500, 13.8% below the national figure and 36% above the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,490 a month, 6% above the national figure, or roughly $17,880 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.6% 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 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 82.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.