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A regional job hub with 39,638 jobs. With 42,519 residents, this town was settled in 2012.
Trash day: look up yoursPeachtree Corners’s best grade is for health: residents are healthier than 85% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. The town grades B+ overall and ranks 33rd of 258 in Georgia. On that grade it does better than 71% of U.S. towns. Add incomes to its strengths: the median household earns $82K. What holds it back is cost of living (D): the typical home is worth about $537K, 6 years of the Atlanta metro’s $90K median household income. This Georgia town has 1 place on the National Register. 52% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more locally, where Georgia’s towns sit at 25% and U.S. towns at 29%. Peachtree Corners is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Peachtree Corners beats most towns.
Where Peachtree Corners’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Peachtree Corners is from typical.
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The archive holds 24 old photos and papers going back to 2010 and 4 maps from 1956 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Peachtree Corners. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaMercedes-Benz Stadium
Big draw12 mi MountainStone Mountain
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaState Farm Arena
15 mi Stadium & arenaTruist Park
Big draw25 mi LakeLake Lanier
9 mi MuseumChattahoochee Nature CenterMercedes-Benz Stadium: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0 · Stone Mountain: KyleAndMelissa22, Public domain · State Farm Arena: Hermann Luyken, CC0 · Truist Park: Thechased at English Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Lanier: http://www.terraprints.com, CC BY 2.5 · Chattahoochee Nature Center: muffinn from Worcester, UK, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Peachtree Corners, 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 Peachtree Corners.
Peachtree Corners draws workers from Atlanta and beyond and has less tooth loss than most of Georgia, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Georgia.
At 6 years of the Atlanta metro’s $90K median household income, the typical home (about $537K) costs more against local pay than in 93% of Georgia towns; that ratio is one input to that grade. The median property tax bill is $4,436, against $2,341 across Georgia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Homes in Peachtree Corners are typically worth about $537,000, down 2.4% in a year, 63% above the Georgia typical home. The median rent for Peachtree Corners comes to $1,701 a month. In Peachtree Corners, 53% of households live in a home they own.
| Peachtree Corners | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,701 a month | $1,152 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 53% | 58% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Three of the 7 schools are below, and why each made the list. Its public schools are run by the Gwinnett County school district. Also worth knowing: 5 public schools serve Peachtree Corners, with 3,188 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinckneyville Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,157 | B+ |
| Wesleyan School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 1,200 | – |
| Simpson Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 881 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
39,638 jobs are based in Peachtree Corners, 2.1 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. 25.3% of workers work from home, against 15.9% across Georgia.
Only 8% of working residents stay in Peachtree Corners for work; the rest commute out. A quarter of workers work remotely from home in the town. The top destinations are Atlanta (17%), Sandy Springs (7%) and Alpharetta (6%). For half of commuters, work is under 10 miles away.
| Peachtree Corners | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 25% | 9.2% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.9% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $82,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its widest gap with Georgia is tooth loss: 6.9% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.5% statewide.
The share of adults in Peachtree Corners who worry about having enough food: 14%. Of 32 CDC measures, Peachtree Corners beats the Georgia average on 17 and trails it on 1. Among adults in the town, 17% have been diagnosed with depression and 10% smoke cigarettes.
| Peachtree Corners | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 14% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 20% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Peachtree Corners | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.9% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.2% | 6.5% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 74.2% | 77.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
There are 6.6 miles of trail across 9 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Pickneyville Park, at 67 acres. Peachtree Corners’ trail network density is 0.4 miles per square mile.
| Peachtree Corners | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 3.6% | 2.2% | 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. CRNRA - Medlock Bridge Unit | 1.4 mi | 46 |
| 2. Jones Bridge Park | 0.8 mi | 34 |
| 3. Pickneyville Park | 0.7 mi | 67 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Peachtree Corners once, in 2017. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 73% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 67% come from inland flooding and 13% from tornadoes. The national flood insurance program has paid 2 claims locally since 2020.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
July afternoons average 88.9°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 85% of Georgia places with climate records; January nights average 32.2°.
Snow is a rarity. The January low in the town is 32°F.
| Peachtree Corners | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 32°F | 33°F | 22°F |
| July high | 89°F | 90°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
13 within 15 miles of the center of Peachtree Corners
About 5 of every 100 Peachtree Corners residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
City in the United States
Peachtree Corners is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is the largest city in Gwinnett County with a population of 42,243 as of the 2020 U.S. census. Peachtree Corners is the only Atlanta northern suburb developed as a planned community. The city is bordered to the north and west by the Chattahoochee River and is located east of Dunwoody.
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6 towns share a border with Peachtree Corners.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peachtree Corners | #33 | B+ | D | — | B+ | A− |
| Berkeley Lake | — | — | D | — | B+ | A |
| Norcross | #132 | C | D | C− | B+ | C+ |
| Doraville | #187 | D | C− | D− | C− | B− |
| Dunwoody | #108 | C+ | D | C− | C− | A+ |
| Duluth | #45 | B | D | B− | B+ | A |
| Sandy Springs | #23 | A− | D− | B− | A− | A+ |
Berkeley Lake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Peachtree Corners and Berkeley Lake report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Peachtree Corners with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Peachtree Corners grades B+ overall, better than 71% of U.S. towns and #33 of 258 in Georgia. It grades A− for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
