New census data shows how Georgia changed from 2020 to 2021 – Reporter Newspapers & Atlanta Intown

Georgia’s inhabitants elevated between July 2020 and July 2021, in response to annual information from the Census Bureau. The state’s 2021 inhabitants was roughly 10.8 million, a rise of virtually 74,000 residents, or about 0.7%, over 2020. 

New inhabitants estimates out in the present day embody info on age, race, and ethnicity in American counties and cities for the interval as much as July 2021.

Like the remainder of the nation, Georgia is getting old ever-so-slightly, Kristie Wilder, demographer within the Census Bureau’s inhabitants division, stated. The state’s median age rose from 37.3 in 2020 to 37.5 in 2021.

The quickest rising age group in Georgia was the 65 and older inhabitants, she added. That inhabitants elevated by 3.2% over the one-year interval from 2020 to 2021.

Cities like Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah mirror the state development, Wilder stated. Every metropolis’s median age ticked up barely and the 65 and older age group elevated probably the most of any age group.

“It’s according to nationwide developments over the past yr. Each state acquired somewhat older, apart from Maine,” stated Wilder. “The nation as a complete is getting old barely.”

The year-to-year estimates of key American inhabitants information keep in mind births, deaths, and web migration, Wilder stated.

Georgians might not be stunned that Atlanta picked up nearly 43,000 residents between July 2020 and July 2021.     

Smaller cities like Gainesville, Hinesville, Warner Robins, Savannah, and the Athens metropolitan areas all had populations that elevated by 1% or extra in that interval.

Gainesville’s inhabitants rose to round 207,000 in 2021, up over round 204,000 simply the yr earlier than. That’s a web improve of three,780 residents, or 1.9%

Savannah’s inhabitants additionally elevated by nearly 5,000 residents.

Albany and Columbus each decreased in inhabitants dimension. Albany’s inhabitants decreased by 644 and Columbus’s 1,605 individuals between 2020 and 2021.

The Jefferson metro inhabitants – which for the Census is identical as Jackson County – elevated by about 3,500 residents over the previous yr, or a whopping 4.7% progress. Jefferson’s inhabitants now tops 80,000.

The world is seeing progress in industrial actual property and ecommerce-related warehouses, John Scott, vice chairman and director of financial growth for the Jackson County chamber of commerce, stated. He pointed to the SK battery plant which manufactures lithium-ion batteries for cars.

The uptick in inhabitants is noticeable within the space, Scott stated. Households have been drawn to the world from cities like Atlanta and even New York due to high quality colleges and jobs.

“We preserve having to construct colleges,” Scott stated. He additionally pointed to a rise in single-family dwelling progress as proof of younger households shifting to the world.

Scott’s observations about an inflow of younger households to the Jefferson space appear to be mirrored within the census information. 

In Jefferson, it was the 25-to-64 age group that noticed the most important improve, Wilder stated, which is totally different from the Georgia-wide development of the most important will increase within the 65-and-over set.

Amongst different small cities, Statesboro, St. Mary’s, Cornelia, and Cedartown all picked up greater than a one % inhabitants improve.

Americus and Bainbridge every misplaced round 300 residents throughout the interval from July 2020 to July 2021, a one % lower for each cities.

The most recent information additionally reveals that the nation is more and more numerous, and the Georgia information on race and ethnicity displays that, stated Wilder.

“In the event you’re an area enterprise proprietor and also you wish to higher perceive your group, perceive the native demographic, it could be helpful in that,” Wilder stated.

“On a regular basis residents… will discover the estimates helpful when making an attempt to raised perceive the demographic make-up of a specific geography, whether or not it’s their county, whether or not it’s their state,” Wilder stated.  

This story is accessible by means of a information partnership with Capitol Beat Information Service, a challenge of the Georgia Press Academic Basis.