Lakeview EstatesGA
A town of 3,596 in Georgia.
Is Lakeview Estates a good place to live?
Homes are affordable here, though not without reasons. Where it falls short is health (D): residents are less healthy than 87% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. With a B− overall, Lakeview Estates is better than 48% of U.S. towns and ranks 77th of 258 in Georgia. Cost of living is its strong suit: a typical home costs about $75K, less than a year of the Atlanta metro’s $90K median household income. Only 26 of Georgia’s 373 towns score lower on history. 32% of residents live below the poverty line here, above both Georgia’s towns (15%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Only 31 of Georgia’s 374 towns score lower on the outdoors. Only 2 of the 263 Georgia towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Lakeview Estates.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · National Register of Historic Places · USGS PAD-US · Census LEHD, 2023.
What makes Lakeview Estates stand out
Where Lakeview Estates beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Lakeview Estates for work
Where Lakeview Estates’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lakeview Estates grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Lakeview Estates is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for cost of living (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for health (better than 13%), so the B− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Stone Mountain and 68 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lakeview Estates. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi MountainStone Mountain
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaMercedes-Benz Stadium
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaState Farm Arena
21 mi Zoo & aquariumGeorgia Aquarium
Big draw30 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Georgia
Big draw37 mi LakeLake LanierPhoto credits
Stone Mountain: KyleAndMelissa22, Public domain · Mercedes-Benz Stadium: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0 · State Farm Arena: Hermann Luyken, CC0 · Georgia Aquarium: Diliff, CC BY 2.5 · Six Flags Over Georgia: hagerman, CC BY 2.0 · Lake Lanier: http://www.terraprints.com, CC BY 2.5
Moving to Lakeview Estates: who provides what
Lakeview Estates is unincorporated, so Rockdale 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 Lakeview Estates.
Lakeview Estates is healthier than towns with similar incomes and sends most of its workers to Conyers and beyond, but it has poverty well above the Georgia rate.
Compared with most of Georgia and the rest of the country, more of Lakeview Estates’ adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance
Against the 4,627 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lakeview Estates’s, it is less healthy than 59%, so its D isn’t only a matter of income.
For adults in Lakeview Estates, the share who report frequent mental distress is 19%. Only 2 of the 261 Georgia towns we compare have a lower share of adults who had a checkup this year than Lakeview Estates. CDC measures, 32 in all: Lakeview Estates beats Georgia on 7 and trails on 14.
| Lakeview Estates | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 29% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 22% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 79% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 14% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Lakeview Estates | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 3.4% | 7% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17.3% | 24.6% |
| More uninsured adults | 38.9% | 13.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lakeview Estates stands out in Georgia and nationally: a smaller share of its working residents work locally
Lakeview Estates has 9 jobs for its 805 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
The top destinations are Conyers (12%), Atlanta (6%) and Covington (4%). Lakeview Estates’ average commute is 35 minutes. Half commute less than 14 miles.
| Lakeview Estates | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 32% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $47,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 9.2% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lakeview Estates faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Just over half of Lakeview Estates’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 18%. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage here than in 70% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The climate in Lakeview Estates brings mild winters and hot summers
Lakeview Estates’ peak summer temperature stands at 90°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Lakeview Estates
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Lakeview Estates
About 0 of every 100 Lakeview Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
About Lakeview Estates
Place in Georgia, United States
Lakeview Estates, also known as Sunrise Lakes by local residents, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,660 in 2020.
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- Area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 787 ft
- Area code
- 770
Questions about Lakeview Estates
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lakeview Estates, GA a good place to live?
Lakeview Estates grades B− overall, better than 48% of U.S. towns and #77 of 258 in Georgia. It grades D for health and C for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Lakeview Estates, GA expensive?
Not for the area. That is 0.8 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 A+.