RaoulGA
2,253 residents make their home in this town in Georgia.
Is Raoul a good place to live?
Raoul’s best subject grade is an A− for schools; its weakest is a D for walkability. On walkability, just 16 of Georgia’s 371 towns do worse. On history, just 20 of Georgia’s 373 towns do worse. Raoul has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Raoul stand out
Where Raoul beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Raoul for work
Where Raoul’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Raoul grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Raoul is from typical.
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Moving to Raoul: who provides what
Raoul is unincorporated, so Habersham 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 Raoul.
Raoul stands out in Georgia and nationally, with fewer of its working residents who work locally
The mean commuting time for Raoul comes to 34 minutes. The town had 205 jobs in 2023, down 576 from 2013. In Raoul, the median household income is $45,000, where Georgia’s towns sit at $63,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000. The top destinations are Gainesville (14%), Cornelia (6%) and Baldwin (3%).
| Raoul | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $45,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.1% | 9.1% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 9.7% | 15% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a low hazard risk in Raoul: inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 72% of U.S. communities. 32% of Raoul’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 29%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Raoul has mild winters and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 32° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A larger share of adults feel lonely in Raoul than in most of Georgia or the rest of the country
Of the 262 Georgia towns we compare, none has a higher share of adults who report frequent mental distress than Raoul. 22% of Raoul adults say their health is fair or poor. The share of adults in Raoul who have been diagnosed with depression is 27%, above both the Georgia town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (23%). The town does better than the Georgia average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 14.
| Raoul | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 19% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 39% | 33% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 38% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 20% | 23% |
| What stands out | Raoul | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 3.4% | 6.1% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.5% | 7% |
| More adults facing housing insecurity | 22.3% | 15% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Raoul sell for about $285K
Only 3 of the 264 Georgia towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Raoul.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Raoul is conserved land
1.1 miles of trail. Raoul’s trail density stands at 0.6 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Raoul
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Raoul
About 2 of every 100 Raoul residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
About Raoul
Place in Georgia, United States
Raoul is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Habersham County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Raoul had a population of 2,803.
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- Area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,421 ft
- Area code
- 706
Raoul’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Raoul.
Raoul and Alto have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Raoul reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Raoul with a neighbor →
Questions about Raoul
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Raoul, GA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $128,000, 61% 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 B−.