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A town settled in 1904, now home to 14,390 people.
The everyday basics are strong; the price of a home is the catch. Its strongest is health: residents are healthier than 98% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. At A overall, Vinings is better than 87% of U.S. towns and ranks 11th of 258 in Georgia. It is strong on incomes as well: the median household earns $95K. What counts against it is cost of living — the typical home is worth about $485K, 5.4 years of the Atlanta metro’s $90K median household income. The town has 1 place on the National Register. 70% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more here, above both Georgia’s towns (25%) and U.S. towns (29%). On walkability, just 26 of Georgia’s 371 towns do better.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Vinings beats most towns.
9,734 counted in 2010 and 12,581 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Vinings is from typical.
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Census counts: 7,417 in 1990, 12,581 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 2005 and 5 maps from 1954 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Vinings. Close and well known come first.
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaMercedes-Benz Stadium
2 mi Stadium & arenaTruist Park
Big draw8 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Georgia
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaState Farm Arena
Big draw19 mi MountainStone Mountain
8 mi Zoo & aquariumGeorgia AquariumMercedes-Benz Stadium: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0 · Truist Park: Thechased at English Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0 · Six Flags Over Georgia: hagerman, CC BY 2.0 · State Farm Arena: Hermann Luyken, CC0 · Stone Mountain: KyleAndMelissa22, Public domain · Georgia Aquarium: Diliff, CC BY 2.5
Vinings is unincorporated, so Cobb 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Vinings.
Vinings draws workers from Atlanta and beyond and has less tooth loss than most of Georgia, but it has little public open land.
Its widest gap with Georgia is tooth loss: 5.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.5% statewide.
77% of Vinings adults had a checkup this year. Among 261 Georgia towns, just 3 have a lower share of adults who have diabetes than Vinings. Against the Georgia average, Vinings comes out ahead on 24 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 1.
| Vinings | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 8.5% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 38% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 7.4% | 14% | 12% |
| What stands out | Vinings | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.1% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 3.1% | 6.5% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 71.9% | 77.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
27,914 jobs are based in Vinings, 4.3 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 15,900 in 2013 to 27,914.
Jobs based in Vinings grew to 27,914 in 2023, 12,014 more than in 2013. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 4% of working residents work locally. 6.2% of residents live below the poverty line locally. Half commute less than 9 miles.
| Vinings | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6.2% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $95,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.5% | 9.2% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The median property tax bill is $3,802, against $2,341 across Georgia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Vinings’ typical rent stands at $1,839 a month. The typical Vinings home is worth about $485,000, down 1.7% in a year, 47% above the Georgia typical home. Homes sold in Vinings spent a median 50 days on the market.
| Vinings | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 33% | 58% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,839 a month | $1,152 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Vinings’ typical July afternoon high comes in at 89°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA puts 71% of Vinings’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 13% to tornadoes. On expected storm and flood damage, Vinings sits below 56% of U.S. communities. 285 flood insurance claims have been paid locally since 1979.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Just 8 of its 2,052 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Vinings itself; its outdoors grade is D.
One park or preserve covers 11 acres in Vinings.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area | — | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
26 within 15 miles of the center of Vinings
About 10 of every 100 Vinings residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
Where Vinings’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Place in Georgia, United States
Vinings is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cobb County, Georgia, United States that runs along the Chattahoochee River bank across from Buckhead. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a total population of 12,581. Located next to the affluent Paces section of Buckhead in northwest Atlanta, Vinings is known for its historic sites, shopping districts, proximity to local freeways and The Battery, and nearby nature areas. The United States Postal Service assigns "Atlanta" to the ZIP Code (30339) that includes Vinings (area of Cobb County between Interstate 285 and the Chattahoochee River).
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One town shares a border with Vinings.
Vinings reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Vinings with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Vinings grades A overall, better than 87% of U.S. towns and #11 of 258 in Georgia. It grades A+ for health and A− 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.
