Sunny Side, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Sunny Side city is a very small community in Georgia, with 224 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #586 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 13% of them. The median age here is 33.3 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 Sunny Side city earn a median of $36,875 a year, 53% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% 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 25.4% 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 Sunny Side city is valued at $76,700, 74.7% below the national figure and 60% below the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,136 a month, 19.2% below the national figure, or roughly $13,632 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 37% 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 2.1×, 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. 45.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Sunny Side city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 37% of median income while homes cost only 2.1× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 224 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sunny Side city against its county rather than against national figures.

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.