With 6.26 million residents, Atlanta, GA ranks 8th among the 387 metropolitan areas. Below: who lives here, which trades are crowded, and where a local advertiser can gain ground.
Officially the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan statistical area, it takes in Atlanta, Sandy Springs and Roswell.
Money first: median household income in the Atlanta metro is $89,724, 11 percent above the national figure. Homes are valued at a median of $367,600 against $332,700 nationally, 10 percent above the national figure.
The household mix in brief. Ownership: 66.1% of households own their home, about the same as the US share. A four-year degree or more: 42.2%, 6 points above the US share. The median age is 37.2, 1.7 years below the national median, so this is a younger market than the country as a whole. Work: 3,345,751 in the labor force, 5% unemployed (about the same as the US share).
How does that compare with the state as a whole? Income in Atlanta, GA is 16 percent higher than the Georgia figure, the median home value is 21 percent higher than the Georgia figure, and business density is 9 percent denser than the Georgia figure; the full numbers are on the Georgia page.
163,103 businesses with employees operate in Atlanta, GA. Density runs 26.1 businesses for every 1,000 residents, 4 percent above the national figure. Contractors in the home-services trades total 6,720, or 4.1% of the base, about the same as the US share.
| Category | Locations | Per 100k people | Local ÷ US share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-storage facilities | 484 | 7.7 | 1.34× |
| Legal services | 4,397 | 70.3 | 1.24× |
| Roofing contractors | 565 | 9 | 1.14× |
| Beauty salons | 1,862 | 29.8 | 1.13× |
| Personal care services (all) | 3,409 | 54.5 | 1.09× |
| General freight trucking | 2,487 | 39.8 | 1.09× |
| Physicians' offices | 4,534 | 72.5 | 1.07× |
| Restaurants and other eating places | 12,149 | 194.2 | 1.01× |
| Grocery and convenience retailers | 1,876 | 30 | 0.96× |
| Lessors of real estate (all) | 2,545 | 40.7 | 0.96× |
| Child day care services | 1,471 | 23.5 | 0.92× |
| Dentists | 2,421 | 38.7 | 0.91× |
| Electrical contractors | 1,446 | 23.1 | 0.89× |
| Automobile dealers | 803 | 12.8 | 0.87× |
| Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors | 1,821 | 29.1 | 0.84× |
| Concrete foundation and structure contractors | 379 | 6.1 | 0.83× |
| Landscaping services | 1,908 | 30.5 | 0.83× |
| General automotive repair | 1,345 | 21.5 | 0.81× |
| Highway, street and bridge construction | 133 | 2.1 | 0.74× |
| Other specialty trade contractors (paving, asphalt, fencing) | 601 | 9.6 | 0.72× |
The last column divides the local share of establishments by the national share (1.00 = the same mix as the US).
Atlanta, GA is dense with self-storage operators and legal services compared with the US pattern. Self-storage operators are the clearest case: 484 establishments, 1.3 times the share they hold nationally. On the other side, specialty trade contractors, road and paving contractors, general automotive repair and concrete contractors are thin: fewer establishments per resident than the US pattern. Specialty trade contractors are the widest shortfall at 601 establishments, about 72% of the US share. In line with the country: roofing contractors, electrical contractors and automobile dealers.
Per 100,000 residents: restaurants 194.2, followed by physicians' offices and legal services. The most numerous of the listed trades: restaurants with 12,149 establishments, then physicians' offices (4,534) and legal services (4,397). By sector, legal services are the most over-represented at 1.2 times the US share; automotive businesses are the least, at about 83% of.
Many competitors in self-storage operators and legal services means the auction is expensive and the map pack is crowded; the winners are the profiles with the freshest reviews and the pages that answer the search precisely. For specialty trade contractors, road and paving contractors and general automotive repair, the opportunity is coverage. Few competitors means the business that shows up for every nearby town and every variant of the search collects most of it. Incomes 11 percent above the national figure give room for premium service tiers; ads that lead with quality and speed rather than price tend to fit. With a median age 1.7 years below the national median, expect more discovery through maps, short video and AI answers; search alone covers less of the market.
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Atlanta, GA has 6.26 million residents (US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimate), ranking 8th of 387 metropolitan areas.
The median household income in Atlanta, GA is $89,724 (ACS 2024 5-year), above the US median of $80,734.
The Census Bureau counts 163,103 employer establishments in Atlanta, GA (County Business Patterns 2023), or 26.1 businesses per 1,000 residents.
The median home value in Atlanta, GA is $367,600, and 66.1% of homes are owner-occupied (ACS 2024 5-year).
Measured against the US business mix (County Business Patterns 2023), self-storage operators and legal services have more establishments per resident than the US average; specialty trade contractors, road and paving contractors and general automotive repair have fewer in Atlanta, GA.
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Data: US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates and County Business Patterns 2023. Updated 2026-09-29.