
Georgia · Census place 47952
Lumber City, GA population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Lumber City, Georgia (Lumber City, GA — Census place “Lumber City city”) is 1,113 residents, ranking #369 of 675 places in Georgia. Median household income is $31,927, the median home is worth — and median gross rent runs $444 a month. Looking for the Lumber City Georgia ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Lumber City, GA: 31549.
- Population
- 1,113Lumber City city residents
- Median household income
- $31,927Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- —Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $444Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 34.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 49.8%Owner-occupied households
Lumber City ZIP codes (Georgia)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Lumber City.
The Lumber City GA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Lumber City city
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Lumber City city median would spend about 16.7% 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. Poverty affects 24.7% of residents and 49.8% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Lumber City city, GA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Lumber City city is a small town in Georgia, with 1,113 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #369 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 45% of them. The median age here is 34.4 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 Lumber City city earn a median of $31,927 a year, 59.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 44% 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 24.7% 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 Lumber City city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $444 a month, 68.4% below the national figure, or roughly $5,328 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 49.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
The Census withheld home value for Lumber City city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Georgia.
- Young Harris city 1,087
- Tunnel Hill city 1,122
- Franklin Springs city 1,086
- Sycamore city 1,124
- Arlington city 1,083
- Rutledge city 1,134
- Jekyll Island CDP 1,078
- Baconton city 1,134
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Lumber City city?
- Lumber City city has 1,113 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #369 of 675 in Georgia.
- What is the median household income in Lumber City city?
- Median household income in Lumber City city is $31,927 a year, 59.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Lumber City city?
- Median gross rent is $444 a month and the median home value is not published, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.
- Is Lumber City city affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- The Census does not publish enough home-value or income detail for Lumber City city to compute a reliable affordability ratio.
- How current is this Lumber City 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.