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Populationverified

5,555

YoY 2024

Verified connectorUSCensusPEP_Annual_Population

Median Incomeverified

$42K

YoY 2024

Verified connectorCensusACS5YearSurvey

Poverty Rateverified

25.8%

YoY 2024

Derived verifiedCensusACS5YearSurvey

Median Ageverified

29.1 yrs

YoY 2024

Verified connectorCensusACS5YearSurvey

Under 18verified

24.3%

YoY 2020-2024

ACS contextCensus Reporter ACS B09001 population under 18 by age table

Housing Unitsverified

2,673

YoY 2024

Verified connectorCensusACS5YearSurvey

County Unemploymentverified

4.3%

YoY 2026-03

County contextBLS_LAUS

Avg Household Sizeverified

2.53

YoY 2020-2024

ACS contextCensus Reporter ACS average household size table

REAL BASELINE COMPARISON

Waynesboro vs Burke County vs Georgia

DATA COMMONS

City share of Burke County22.8%population weight inside county strategy

Income vs Burke County-21.5%$41,620 city vs $53,014 county

Income vs Georgia-46.2%$41,620 city vs $77,353 state

City poverty burden25.8%1,433 people below poverty level

County poverty context18.1%Burke County comparison baseline

Executive read: Waynesboro is roughly 22.8% of Burke County’s population, but its income baseline trails both county and state levels. Treat economic mobility, housing quality, and downtown reinvestment as linked priorities until parcel, permit, and budget evidence narrows the map.

ECONOMIC MOBILITY · ACS CONTEXT

Economic need baseline for grants, housing, food access, and mobility

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Below poverty level26.0%1,433 residents · MOE ±485 · universe 5,507

Main takeaway

Economic need is high enough to matter across grants, housing, food access, mobility, and service-location decisions. Keep it as ACS planning context, not a household eligibility or department workload claim.

Children below poverty20.4% of below-poverty estimate292 estimate · rollup MOE pending

Use withHousing + mobilityPair with cost burden, vehicle access, SNAP, food access, and local service maps before recommendations.

Waynesboro city26.0%1,433 below poverty · MOE ±485

Burke County18.3%4,411 below poverty · MOE ±839

Georgia13.4%1,430,012 below poverty · MOE ±19,111

Additional ACS contextOpen demographic and service-planning drilldownsAge, youth, race/ethnicity, household mix, household size, veterans, and SNAP stay collapsed until needed.

SERVICE DEMAND CONTEXT

Age profile adds a human-services lens to the baseline

ACS B01001

Under 1824.3%

1,374 people · MOE ±392 · School capacity, youth programming, recreation, family-service demand.

Ages 18–2414.2%

802 people · MOE ±314 · Early-career workforce, training, commute, and downtown retention questions.

Ages 25–4425.9%

1,462 people · MOE ±319 · Core workforce, household formation, housing demand, and childcare context.

Ages 45–6418.6%

1,048 people · MOE ±270 · Established households, tax base stability, health access, and succession planning.

65+17.0%

958 people · MOE ±249 · Senior services, accessibility, EMS demand, housing retrofit, and public-health context.

Planning read: ACS estimates show ages 25–44 as the largest age band in the cached profile (25.9%). Use this as service-demand framing only: school, EMS, recreation, housing, health, and workforce records still gate any department-level recommendation.

FOOD SECURITY · ACS CONTEXT

SNAP receipt seed gives the need lens a food-access cross-check

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Households receiving SNAP33.2%731 households · MOE ±231 · universe 2,204

Public-facing guardrail

This is survey context for food-security planning and grant framing. It is not a benefits file, eligibility screen, school-meal count, pantry demand ledger, or department workload metric.

Census Reporter B22001 source query

Households receiving SNAP33.2%731 estimate · MOE ±231 · Waynesboro city ACS B22001 households receiving Food Stamps/SNAP in the past 12 months divided by total households.

Households not receiving SNAP66.8%1,473 estimate · MOE ±309 · ACS B22001 households not receiving Food Stamps/SNAP; use alongside poverty, income, food access, and vehicle access context before any recommendation.

Use withFood accessPair with USDA ERS tract extraction, poverty status, vehicle access, and local service-location maps before any public recommendation.

Waynesboro city33.2%731 households receiving SNAP · MOE ±231 · total households 2,204

Burke County18.9%1,736 households receiving SNAP · MOE ±298 · total households 9,184

Georgia12.3%499,864 households receiving SNAP · MOE ±6,209 · total households 4,074,366

Treat ACS B22001 as household survey context for food-security and benefit-access planning only. Do not present it as program enrollment administration, household eligibility, school-meal participation, nonprofit demand, agency caseload, or municipal service telemetry. Non-SNAP household estimate shown as 1,473 with MOE ±309; release ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024).

YOUTH / FAMILY SERVICE CONTEXT · ACS B09001

Under-18 cohorts break the age profile into usable planning bands

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Under 1824.3%1,374 residents · MOE ±308 · ACS 2024 5-year

Why this improves the executive screen

The earlier age panel showed a single under-18 bucket. This source-labeled split lets the OS ask better questions about childcare, school readiness, youth programs, safe routes, library/recreation, and early workforce pathways without pretending to know enrollment or department workload.

Open Census Reporter B09001 query

Under 315.8%

217 people · MOE ±143 · Childcare, family outreach, health-access and early-intervention questions.

Ages 3–414.6%

200 people · MOE ±107 · Pre-K, library programming, recreation, and school-readiness context.

Age 513.6%

187 people · MOE ±166 · Kindergarten transition and parks/recreation planning context.

Ages 6–813.4%

184 people · MOE ±119 · Elementary-age programming, safe routes, and family-service questions.

Ages 9–1110.3%

142 people · MOE ±149 · After-school, recreation, mentoring, and library-programming context.

Ages 12–1416.5%

227 people · MOE ±178 · Middle-school, youth safety, mobility, and recreation context.

Ages 15–1715.8%

217 people · MOE ±141 · Career pathways, youth employment, commute, and civic-participation questions.

Early childhood604Under 6 estimate from B09001 rows; use as pre-K/childcare planning context only.

School-age bands770Ages 6–17 estimate; pair with Burke County Public Schools and Georgia Insights before conclusions.

Largest cohortAges 12–14227 estimate · ±178 MOE · small cohorts need caution.

Waynesboro city24.3%1,374 under 18 · MOE ±308 · population 5,644

Burke County24.5%6,005 under 18 · MOE ±26 · population 24,470

Georgia23.2%2,541,498 under 18 · MOE ±810 · population 10,940,407

ACS B09001 is survey planning context only. Do not treat these estimates as school enrollment, childcare slots, youth-program demand, juvenile justice records, household-level data, or municipal department workload. Next: Pair B09001 with Burke County Public Schools enrollment, Georgia Insights aggregate dashboards, recreation/library program data, and service-location maps before youth-service recommendations.

DEMOGRAPHIC CONTEXT · ACS B03002

Race / ethnicity lens before outreach assumptions

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Black alone, not Hispanic or Latino65.5%3,694 residents · MOE ±481 · total ACS population 5,644

Public-facing use: better questions, not identity files

Use this panel to frame outreach, public notices, language-access pairing, service-location review, and grant narratives. It does not imply voter records, benefits files, household-level identity data, policing data, eligibility, or department workload.

Census Reporter B03002 source query

Black alone, not Hispanic or Latino65.5%3,694 residents · MOE ±481 · Public communications, grant equity narratives, service-location review, and civic participation outreach context.

White alone, not Hispanic or Latino22.1%1,248 residents · MOE ±451 · Baseline demographic comparison context; not voter, program, or household-level evidence.

Hispanic or Latino8.6%486 residents · MOE ±258 · Language-access, meeting-notice, service-location, and outreach questions when paired with C16001 language data.

Asian alone, not Hispanic or Latino2.2%122 residents · MOE ±132 · Small-cell survey context only; margins of error are large relative to the estimate.

Two or more races, not Hispanic or Latino1.7%94 residents · MOE ±101 · Small-cell survey context only; do not overinterpret without confidence notes.

Waynesboro city65.5%Black alone non-Hispanic · 22.1% White alone non-Hispanic · 8.6% Hispanic/Latino

Burke County45.0%Black alone non-Hispanic · 48.0% White alone non-Hispanic · 3.6% Hispanic/Latino

Georgia30.7%Black alone non-Hispanic · 49.1% White alone non-Hispanic · 11.0% Hispanic/Latino

ACS B03002 is survey demographic context. It is not voter data, program enrollment, household-level identity records, policing data, eligibility data, or a municipal service-demand measure. Small categories can have margins of error larger than estimates; keep MOE and source labels visible before using in public narratives. Release: ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024); retrieved 6/1/2026.

HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION · ACS CONTEXT

Service-demand context before households become assumptions

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Planning context28.3%623 Waynesboro ACS households living alone · MOE ±224

Why this belongs on the executive screen

Household mix changes how the city should ask questions about outreach, recreation, housing, broadband, mobility, and emergency-readiness. This panel keeps that context source-labeled without implying case files, eligibility, school enrollment, or live service demand.

Census Reporter B11001 source route

Family households66.7%1,469 households · MOE ±166

Householders living alone28.3%623 households · MOE ±224

Female householder, no spouse present33.2%732 households · MOE ±139

Nonfamily households33.3%735 households · MOE ±243

Waynesboro city28.3%living alone · 66.7% family households · 33.2% female no-spouse family households

Burke County28.7%living alone · 67.0% family households · 19.8% female no-spouse family households

Georgia27.7%living alone · 66.2% family households · 14.9% female no-spouse family households

ACS survey context only: not household-level records, family-services caseloads, school enrollment, benefits eligibility, homelessness data, or municipal service telemetry.

HOUSEHOLD SIZE · ACS CONTEXT

Tenure-aware household-size context before service assumptions

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Average household size2.53persons per occupied housing unit · MOE ±0.27 · ACS B25010

Why this improves the executive lane

Average household size helps keep housing, recreation, emergency-readiness, and service-location conversations from defaulting to one-size-fits-all assumptions. It stays paired with household composition and crowding context, and it is not evidence of occupancy violations or department workload.

Census Reporter B25010 source query

Owner-occupied average size2.31persons/unit · MOE ±0.57 · Owner-occupied survey context; high MOE means use cautiously.

Renter-occupied average size2.62persons/unit · MOE ±0.34 · Renter-occupied survey context only, not rent-roll or inspection evidence.

ReleaseACS 2024 5-year2020-2024 · retrieved 2026-06-01

Use postureSurvey contextNo household-level records, occupancy certificates, code findings, or live service telemetry.

Waynesboro city2.53avg household size · owner 2.31 · renter 2.62 · MOE ±0.27

Burke County2.64avg household size · owner 2.72 · renter 2.45 · MOE ±0.11

Georgia2.62avg household size · owner 2.72 · renter 2.43 · MOE ±0.01

ACS survey planning context only: not household-level records, occupancy certificates, code-enforcement findings, school enrollment, homelessness data, utility account counts, or live municipal service demand.

VETERAN STATUS · ACS CONTEXT

Veteran-service lens before outreach becomes guesswork

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Veterans7.3%313 veterans · MOE ±158 · universe 4,270

Why this belongs in the civic brief

Veteran status adds a respectful service-planning lens for recognition, outreach, mobility, health-access, aging-services, and nonprofit partnership questions. It stays source-labeled and does not imply VA enrollment, benefits eligibility, or municipal caseload.

Census Reporter B21001 source query

Male veterans96.2%301 estimate · MOE ±158 · VA outreach, event planning, aging-service referrals, and veterans-organization source-routing context.

Female veterans3.8%12 estimate · MOE ±21 · Small-estimate caveat: use only as ACS context, not as proof of exact program reach.

Veterans age 55+84.0%263 estimate · MOE MOE pending for derived sum · Aging-service, health-access, mobility, and civic-recognition planning context before local service-provider records are integrated.

Waynesboro city7.3%313 veterans · MOE ±158 · universe 4,270

Burke County8.7%1,610 veterans · MOE ±302 · universe 18,465

Georgia7.2%601,304 veterans · MOE ±7700 · universe 8,340,227

ACS B21001 is survey context for the civilian population age 18+. It is not VA enrollment, benefits eligibility, service-connected disability, household-level records, military-installation activity, nonprofit caseload, or live municipal service demand. Release: ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024).