ConleyGA
A town of 5,822.
Is Conley a good place to live?
Conley grades D overall, 206th of 258 graded towns in Georgia, mostly because of health and schools. Residents are less healthy than 98% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Its public schools trail 90% of Georgia towns on state tests and graduation. What it does well: natural-hazard risk is low. 36% of residents live below the poverty line in Conley, above both the Georgia town median (15%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Of the 263 Georgia towns we compare, none has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Conley.
What makes Conley stand out
Where Conley beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
100% of working residents leave Conley for work
Where Conley’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Conley grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Conley is from typical.
Its grades run from A for hazard risk (better than 87% of comparable towns) to D− for health (better than 2%), so the D overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Mercedes-Benz Stadium and 67 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Conley. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaMercedes-Benz Stadium
Big draw16 mi MountainStone Mountain
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaState Farm Arena
9 mi Zoo & aquariumGeorgia Aquarium
Big draw15 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Georgia
7 mi Stadium & arenaCenter Parc StadiumPhoto credits
Mercedes-Benz Stadium: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0 · Stone Mountain: KyleAndMelissa22, Public domain · State Farm Arena: Hermann Luyken, CC0 · Georgia Aquarium: Diliff, CC BY 2.5 · Six Flags Over Georgia: hagerman, CC BY 2.0 · Center Parc Stadium: Southernkeith, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Conley: who provides what
Conley is unincorporated, so Clayton 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 Conley.
Conley has homes that are cheap against local pay and has more 90° days than most of the country, though not than most of Georgia; it also has poverty well above the Georgia rate.
Conley stands out in Georgia and nationally: a larger share of its adults worry about having enough food
The share of adults in Conley who binge drink: 12%. Only 6 of the 261 Georgia towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have obesity than Conley. Against the Georgia average, Conley comes out ahead on 2 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 24.
| Conley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 23% | 19% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 49% | 38% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 14% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 29% | 25% |
| What stands out | Conley | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.7% | 7% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 11.5% | 14.5% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 23.2% | 9.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Conley earns a D for schools
Its one school is below. The public schools here belong to the Clayton County school district. 420 students attend Conley’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 420 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
Compared with most of Georgia and the rest of the country, the FEMA risk score in Conley is lower
Of the losses FEMA expects in Conley, 43% come from inland flooding and 25% from tornadoes. One declared disaster, in 2004, has brought federal aid to Conley households. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 93% of U.S. communities.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Conley has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The top destinations are Atlanta (22%), College Park (5%) and Forest Park (4%). Conley’s average commute comes in at 33 minutes. For half of commuters, work is under 12 miles away. Employers in Conley shed 61 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,070.
| Conley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $44,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 12% | 9.2% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A home in Conley is worth about $225K, on Zillow’s estimate
At 2.5 years of the Atlanta metro’s $90K median household income, the typical home (about $225K) costs less against local pay than in 87% of Georgia towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living. The typical value, about $225K, is 12% below its July 2024 peak.
A home in Conley typically sold within 66 days of listing. Typical home values fell 3.8% in the year to September 2026. Also worth knowing: in Conley, 65% of households live in a home they own.
| Conley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 65% | 58% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,264 a month | $1,152 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
In Conley, expect mild winters and hot summers
The Atlanta Hartsfield Intl Ap weather station, 6 miles away, records that about 47 days a year reach 90°: more than most of the country, but fewer than 76% of Georgia places with climate records.
In July, afternoons reach 90°; in January, nights fall to 33°, and about 2 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Conley
Colleges nearby
21 within 15 miles of the center of Conley
About 4 of every 100 Conley residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
About Conley
Place in Georgia, United States
Conley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clayton County and DeKalb County, Georgia United States. It is at Atlanta's southeast corner, 7.98 miles from downtown. The population was 6,680 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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- Area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 853 ft
- ZIP code
- 30288
- Area code
- 404
Conley’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Conley.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conley | #206 | D | B | — | D | D− |
| Forest Park | #204 | D | B+ | D | D | D |
Conley reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Conley with a neighbor →
Questions about Conley
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Conley, GA a good place to live?
Conley grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #206 of 258 in Georgia. It grades D− for health and D for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Conley, GA expensive?
That is 2.5 years of the area's median household income ($89,724 across the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.