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Cobb County December 30, 2023

How much is the median rent in different parts of Cobb County, and how many rental units are there?

[Editor’s note: A reader with expertise in real estate and development patterns in Cobb County emailed me that there were anomalies in the reported number of renter-occupied units in some…

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Cobb County December 26, 2023

Find the median household income in your part of Cobb County

[Editor’s note: the original headline read “median family income.” The census variable is actually “median household income.”] This morning we posted a pair of interactive maps to help readers find…

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Cobb County December 24, 2023

When people moved into Cobb County, what states, territories and other areas did they move here from?

The U.S. Census Bureau released its State-to-County migration flow collected during the American Community Survey. This data gives an estimate of where people moving into the county over the past…

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Cobb County December 10, 2023

What percentage of Cobb County population is foreign-born?

The Courier is publishing a series of articles springing from the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) released last Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau (more on that below). We think…

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From the Editor April 21, 2021

Poverty rate in Cobb County

In this article I’ll present a color-coded interactive map that contains data on the poverty rate in Cobb County within each census tract. If you want to skip the explanations…

screenshot of interactive map of Cobb County with incomes by census tract color coded (text tables of data available in article)

From the Editor April 18, 2021

Cobb County residents: find out the median household income in your census tract

The decennial census will be released at the end of the month, and in preparation for that I’ve been building tables and interactive maps based on the American Community Survey,…

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American Community Survey

How much is the median rent in different parts of Cobb County, and how many rental units are there?

Find the median household income in your part of Cobb County

When people moved into Cobb County, what states, territories and other areas did they move here from?

What percentage of Cobb County population is foreign-born?

Poverty rate in Cobb County

Cobb County residents: find out the median household income in your census tract