BuckheadGA
A town of 4,702.
Is Buckhead a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Buckhead grades B overall, 60th of 258 graded towns in Georgia. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 94% of the country and its public schools beat 90% of Georgia towns on state tests and graduation. The trade-off is money: homes are expensive, about $466K for a typical one and 6 times the Savannah metro’s $77K median household income. 63% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Buckhead, above both the Georgia town median (25%) and the median of U.S. towns (29%). Only 9 of Georgia’s 374 towns score lower on hazard risk. Buckhead has 3 places on the National Register.
What makes Buckhead stand out
Where Buckhead beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
98% of working residents leave Buckhead for work
Where Buckhead’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Buckhead grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Buckhead is from typical.
Its grades run from A for health (better than 94% of comparable towns) to D− for hazard risk (better than 3%), so the B overall blends very different results.
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Mercer House and 20 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Buckhead. Close and well known come first.
17 mi MuseumMercer House
21 mi National MonumentFort Pulaski National Monument321K visitors a year
14 mi State parkWormsloe Historic Site
18 mi MuseumSorrel–Weed House
17 mi MuseumCongregation Mickve Israel
17 mi Park & preserveForsyth ParkPhoto credits
Mercer House: Kyle Kesselring from Canal Winchester, OH, CC BY 2.0 · Fort Pulaski National Monument: Edibobb, CC BY 3.0 · Wormsloe Historic Site: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sorrel–Weed House: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Congregation Mickve Israel: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Forsyth Park: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5
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Moving to Buckhead: who provides what
Buckhead is unincorporated, so Bryan County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Buckhead.
Buckhead has less food insecurity than most of Georgia and sends most of its workers to Savannah and beyond, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Georgia (mostly hurricanes).
For health, Buckhead earns an A
Its widest gap with Georgia is food insecurity: 8.2% of its 2,812 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.7% statewide. Against the 3,144 U.S. towns with household incomes like Buckhead’s, it is healthier than 75%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
19% of adults binge drink in Buckhead. Buckhead beats the Georgia average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 17% of adults get no exercise outside work in Buckhead.
| Buckhead | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 14% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 29% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.1% | 14% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Buckhead | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.2% | 17.7% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.4% | 14.5% |
| More binge drinkers | 19.4% | 14.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
For schools, Buckhead earns an A
Its A for schools comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $466K.
Its public schools are run by the Bryan County school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| McAllister Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 1,051 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
Buckhead has set aside 9.4% of its land for conservation
1.4 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The biggest place to walk is DeVaul Henderson Recreational Park, 131 acres with 1.4 miles of trail.
| Buckhead | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 9.4% | 2.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. DeVaul Henderson Recreational Park | 1.4 mi | 131 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Very high risk in Buckhead, with hurricanes at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of Georgia towns; that rating is what its D− for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Buckhead is 95 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median household income in Buckhead is higher than in most of Georgia or the rest of the country
Buckhead has 237 jobs for its 1,598 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Buckhead’s median household income is $145,000. Of the 263 Georgia towns we compare, none has a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Buckhead. Buckhead’s average trip to work is 33 minutes.
| Buckhead | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $145,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 0.6% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 9.2% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Buckhead, expect mild winters and hot summers
Buckhead has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 92°, January nights drop to 40° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Buckhead
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Buckhead
About 7 of every 100 Buckhead residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
About Buckhead
Place in Georgia, United States
Buckhead is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Bryan County, Georgia, United States. It is on Georgia State Route 144, 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Richmond Hill. The 2020 census listed a population of 4,441.
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- Elevation
- 16 ft
Questions about Buckhead
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Buckhead, GA a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Buckhead grades B overall, better than 57% of U.S. towns and #60 of 258 in Georgia. It grades A for health and A for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Buckhead, GA expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.