SunnysideGA
A town in Georgia, home to 1,031 people.
Is Sunnyside a good place to live?
Sunnyside’s best subject grade is a B for cost of living; its weakest is a D for incomes. Residents are less healthy than 90% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Only 4 of the 264 Georgia towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Sunnyside. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 3 of Georgia’s 374 towns do worse. Sunnyside has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Sunnyside has grown 13% from 2010 to 2020
1,303 counted in 2010 and 1,472 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Sunnyside grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Sunnyside is from typical.
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Moving to Sunnyside: who provides what
Sunnyside is unincorporated, so Ware 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 Sunnyside.
For health, Sunnyside earns a D
In Sunnyside, 20% of adults worry about having enough food, against 22% in Georgia’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns. Among 262 Georgia towns, just 3 have a higher share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Sunnyside. Just over a third of Sunnyside adults get no exercise outside work.
| Sunnyside | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 29% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 15% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 12% |
| What stands out | Sunnyside | GA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.9% | 6.5% |
| More smokers | 18.5% | 13.6% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Sunnyside’s workers commute out
Since 2013, Sunnyside has lost 46 jobs, to 75 in 2023. Its typical journey to work is 18 minutes, below both the Georgia town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). In Sunnyside, 22% of residents live below the poverty line. For half of commuters, work is under 5 miles away.
| Sunnyside | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 22% | 15% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Sunnyside stands out in Georgia and nationally, with a typical July afternoon hotter than most
Summers in Sunnyside are hot, and winters mild, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 93°, January nights drop to 39° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Natural hazards: moderate risk in Sunnyside, mostly inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Sunnyside sits below 57% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 9 flood insurance claims have been paid out locally. FEMA puts 39% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 31% to hurricanes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Sunnyside sells for about $120K
The share of households in Sunnyside who are owner-occupiers: 84%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Sunnyside
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Sunnyside
About 6 of every 100 Sunnyside residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
1,031 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Questions about Sunnyside
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sunnyside, GA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $155,000, 53% 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.