Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ellaville’s best subject grade is an A for schools; its weakest is a D for incomes. 21% of working residents work locally in Ellaville, above both Georgia’s towns (9.1%) and U.S. towns (8%). Schley County Courthouse and Teel-Crawford-Gaston Plantation is on the National Register of Historic Places. Ellaville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Ellaville beats most towns.
1,812 counted in 2010 and 1,595 in 2020; an estimated 1,529 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Ellaville is from typical.
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Census counts: 182 in 1880, 1,595 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1922 and 2 maps from 1972 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Ellaville, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Ellaville.
The typical Ellaville home is worth about $173,000, up 2.2% in a year, 47% below the Georgia typical home. At $747 a month, Ellaville’s median rent is below both the Georgia town median ($1,154 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month).
| Ellaville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $747 a month | $1,154 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 68% | 58% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 84% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Ellaville tracks Georgia closely on all 32 CDC measures. 38% of adults feel lonely in Ellaville.
| Ellaville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 39% | 33% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 22% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 19% | 17% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Ellaville has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. Ellaville’s July high is 91°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The violent crime rate in Ellaville is 0.7 per 1,000 residents.
| Ellaville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 8 per 1,000 residents | 14.5 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
About one in 5 of Ellaville’s working residents works in town. Jobs based in Ellaville grew to 932 in 2023, 212 more than in 2013. 17% of Ellaville residents live below the poverty line.
| Ellaville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 17% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| Ellaville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 2.3% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. McMickle Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
2 within 15 miles of the center of Ellaville
About 7 of every 100 Ellaville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
3 notable people were born in Ellaville.
City in Georgia, United States
Ellaville is a city in Schley County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ellaville had a population of 1,595. The city is the county seat of Schley County. Ellaville is part of the Americus micropolitan statistical area.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 4 years of the area's median household income ($43,688 across the Americus, GA area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
3 notable people were born here, including Charles R. Crisp and Caylee Hammack.
