DeenwoodGA
The town has 2,360 residents and lies in Georgia.
Is Deenwood a good place to live?
Deenwood’s weakest subject grade is a D for health. Only 6 of the 265 Georgia towns we compare have a higher midsummer high than Deenwood. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 11 of Georgia’s 374 towns do worse. Deenwood has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
98% of working residents leave Deenwood for work
Where Deenwood’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Deenwood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Deenwood is from typical.
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Moving to Deenwood: who provides what
Deenwood is unincorporated, so Ware 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 Deenwood.
Health in Deenwood trails 91% of U.S. towns
Among adults 18 to 64 in Deenwood, 14% have no health insurance, near the Georgia town median (14%) and above the median of U.S. towns (8.1%). This Georgia town beats the Georgia average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 14. 17% of adults have diabetes locally.
| Deenwood | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 14% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 38% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 29% | 25% |
| What stands out | Deenwood | GA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 80.6% | 77.4% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 24.2% | 14.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in Deenwood fall behind 59% of Georgia districts
Its one school is below. The Ware County school district runs its public schools. 885 students attend Deenwood’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wacona Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 885 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
Most of Deenwood’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.5 jobs for each of them
Employers in Deenwood added 60 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 389. Just 2% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The average trip to work for Deenwood comes to 21 minutes, where Georgia’s towns sit at 26 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Also worth knowing: the typical household income for Deenwood comes to $57,000.
| Deenwood | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 9.1% | 8% |
| Median household income | $57,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 15% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Deenwood: mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons reach 93°, January nights drop to 39° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Deenwood, with inland flooding at the top
On expected storm and flood damage, Deenwood sits below 62% of U.S. communities. 37% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 34%. The national flood insurance program has paid one claim locally since 2009.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Homes in Deenwood sell for about $283K
In Deenwood, the rent at the middle of the market is $1,021 a month. For households in the town, the share who live in a home they own is 70%.
| Deenwood | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 70% | 58% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,021 a month | $1,154 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Deenwood
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Deenwood
About 0 of every 100 Deenwood residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
About Deenwood
Place in Georgia, United States
Deenwood is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Ware County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,207 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Waycross micropolitan statistical area. Deenwood Baptist Church is named after this geographical area.
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- Area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 135 ft
- Area code
- 912
Deenwood’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Deenwood.
Deenwood and Sunnyside have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Deenwood and Sunnyside report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Deenwood with a neighbor →
Questions about Deenwood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Deenwood, GA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $138,000, 58% below the Georgia typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.