BuckheadGA
The town, home to 4,702 people, lies in Georgia.
Is Buckhead a good place to live?
The picture is mixed. Where it does best is health: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 94% of the country. Add schools to its strengths: its public schools beat 90% of Georgia towns on state tests and graduation. What counts against it is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Cost of living is weaker too: the typical home is worth about $466K, 6 years of the Savannah metro’s $77K median household income. It lags on hazard risk as well: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 95% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Overall, that makes a B, good for 60th of 258 in Georgia. On that grade it does better than 57% of U.S. towns.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index.
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.
How TownRatings grades towns →
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.
Only 8 of the 261 Georgia towns we compare have a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Buckhead. Buckhead: 17% of adults get no exercise outside work, below both Georgia’s towns (29%) and U.S. towns (25%). Nearly a fifth of adults binge drink here. Of 32 CDC measures, Buckhead beats the Georgia average on 19 and trails it on 2.
| 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
That grade comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $466K.
Its one school is below. 1,051 students attend Buckhead’s public school.
| 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
In Buckhead, 9.4% of the land is conserved
In 1 park or preserve, walkers have 1.4 miles of trail. The biggest place to walk is DeVaul Henderson Recreational Park, 131 acres with 1.4 miles of trail. Buckhead’s trail network density is 0.5 miles per square mile, against 0.3 in Georgia’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns.
| 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.
Among 262 Georgia towns, just 10 have a higher FEMA hazard score than Buckhead. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 65% come from hurricanes and 22% from inland flooding.
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.
In Buckhead, 0.6% of residents live below the poverty line. Since 2013, Buckhead has added 201 jobs, to 237 in 2023. The average trip to work for Buckhead comes to 33 minutes. Only 2% of working residents stay in Buckhead for work; the rest commute out.
| 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
Expect mild winters and hot summers in Buckhead
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−.