Mount AiryGA
A town of 1,510, settled in 1874.
Is Mount Airy a good place to live?
The best of Mount Airy’s subject grades are an A for cost of living and an A− for schools; the weakest is a D for walkability. Only 20 of Georgia’s 371 towns score higher on cost of living. Mount Airy's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 97% of U.S. towns. Lawton Place is on the National Register of Historic Places. Mount Airy has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Mount Airy stand out
Where Mount Airy beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Mount Airy for work
Where Mount Airy’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mount Airy grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Mount Airy is from typical.
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Moving to Mount Airy: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mount Airy, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Mount Airy.
Low risk in Mount Airy, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 80% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A smaller share of working residents work locally in Mount Airy than in most of Georgia or the rest of the country
0.3% of working residents work locally in Mount Airy, below both Georgia’s towns (9.1%) and U.S. towns (8%). The median household income in Mount Airy is $88,000. The top destinations are Cornelia (12%), Gainesville (11%) and Baldwin (4%).
| Mount Airy | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 9.1% | 8% |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 15% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and pleasant summers in Mount Airy
Mount Airy has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. Only 4 of the 265 Georgia towns we compare have a lower July high than Mount Airy.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Mount Airy is less healthy than 57% of U.S. towns
Mount Airy beats the Georgia average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 17% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Mount Airy, where Georgia’s towns sit at 14% and U.S. towns at 8.1%. 76% of Mount Airy adults had a checkup this year.
| Mount Airy | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 79% | 79% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 38% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 39% | 33% |
| What stands out | Mount Airy | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 8.1% | 9.6% |
| More uninsured adults | 16.9% | 13.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Mount Airy’s typical home value is about $315K
The typical Mount Airy home is worth about $315,000, up 2.3% in a year, close to the Georgia typical home. Mount Airy’s median rent is $721 a month.
| Mount Airy | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 83% | 58% | 73% |
| Median rent | $721 a month | $1,154 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Mount Airy
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Mount Airy
About 6 of every 100 Mount Airy residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
About Mount Airy
Town in Georgia, United States
Mount Airy is a town in Habersham County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mount Airy had a population of 1,391.
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- Area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,545 ft
- ZIP code
- 30563
- Area code
- 706
Mount Airy’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Mount Airy.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Airy | — | — | A | — | A− | C+ |
| Cornelia | #81 | B− | C+ | — | A− | C− |
Mount Airy has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Mount Airy and Cornelia report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mount Airy with a neighbor →
Questions about Mount Airy
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mount Airy, GA expensive?
Not for the 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.