PantryPath Research · Senior Hunger Atlas
Senior Food Insecurity in
Georgia
Georgia's senior poverty rate is 10.8%, and 25.3% of seniors 65+ live alone — across 159 counties. Use the interactive map to see how senior food-insecurity risk varies within the state.
10.8%
Senior poverty (65+)
25.3%
Seniors living alone
37.6%
Senior SNAP take-up
$54,137
Senior median income
Georgia by county
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Georgia at a glance
Seniors in poverty
168K
Ages 65+
Senior poverty rate
10.8%
Ages 65+
Living alone
25.3%
1-person HH, 65+
Senior SNAP
37.6%
HH with 60+ member
Senior median income
$54,137
Householder 65+
Isolation index
0.34
Blended 0–1
County-level hotspots
Top five counties across 159 counties in Georgia.
Highest senior poverty
Ages 65+, rate
- 1 Randolph 30.5%
- 2 Dodge 28.8%
- 3 Wheeler 27.8%
- 4 Stewart 27.4%
- 5 Cook 27.0%
Most seniors living alone
1-person HH, 65+
- 1 Randolph 41.2%
- 2 Webster 40.5%
- 3 Wilkes 39.7%
- 4 Quitman 37.0%
- 5 Brantley 35.8%
Largest senior population
Absolute count, 65+
- 1 Fulton 129K
- 2 Gwinnett 104K
- 3 Cobb 100K
- 4 DeKalb 100K
- 5 Chatham 48K
Every county in Georgia
All 159 counties across the five senior-hunger metrics plus senior population counts.
| County | Senior poverty | Living alone | Senior SNAP | Senior income | Seniors (count) | Isolation idx |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appling | 14.2% | 28.1% | 39.3% | $33,778 | 3,229 | 0.48 |
| Atkinson | 17.6% | 31.0% | 30.6% | $28,426 | 1,122 | 0.63 |
| Bacon | 17.9% | 34.9% | 28.6% | $39,048 | 1,789 | 0.72 |
| Baker | 22.9% | 27.2% | 50.8% | $29,375 | 738 | 0.66 |
| Baldwin | 13.5% | 27.2% | 33.0% | $50,881 | 6,806 | 0.45 |
| Banks | 17.0% | 25.7% | 46.1% | $39,663 | 3,215 | 0.49 |
| Barrow | 6.5% | 20.8% | 36.0% | $51,765 | 11,029 | 0.14 |
| Bartow | 11.3% | 21.8% | 33.1% | $49,652 | 15,831 | 0.27 |
| Ben Hill | 15.9% | 30.9% | 24.5% | $34,699 | 2,895 | 0.59 |
| Berrien | 15.6% | 24.9% | 41.6% | $38,955 | 3,165 | 0.44 |
| Bibb | 14.0% | 29.3% | 38.8% | $44,735 | 24,392 | 0.51 |
| Bleckley | 13.0% | 29.1% | 31.3% | $46,012 | 2,084 | 0.48 |
| Brantley | 12.7% | 35.8% | 34.3% | $30,329 | 3,038 | 0.62 |
| Brooks | 16.0% | 28.3% | 44.0% | $31,927 | 3,167 | 0.53 |
| Bryan | 5.6% | 16.8% | 27.5% | $68,000 | 4,915 | 0.06 |
| Bulloch | 10.1% | 31.0% | 29.4% | $50,188 | 9,612 | 0.46 |
| Burke | 18.7% | 33.9% | 51.3% | $35,744 | 4,072 | 0.72 |
| Butts | 4.8% | 22.6% | 42.0% | $52,105 | 3,691 | 0.15 |
| Calhoun | 22.4% | 30.0% | 38.9% | $22,904 | 840 | 0.71 |
| Camden | 10.4% | 18.6% | 30.5% | $66,474 | 8,168 | 0.18 |
| Candler | 10.2% | 30.2% | 39.5% | $37,397 | 1,868 | 0.44 |
| Carroll | 10.2% | 25.6% | 37.0% | $48,336 | 16,816 | 0.34 |
| Catoosa | 8.1% | 23.9% | 47.3% | $46,511 | 12,266 | 0.25 |
| Charlton | 6.2% | 21.3% | 33.3% | $48,685 | 1,785 | 0.15 |
| Chatham | 9.8% | 26.3% | 36.7% | $61,215 | 47,618 | 0.34 |
| Chattahoochee | 11.1% | 16.1% | 25.8% | $58,802 | 305 | 0.18 |
| Chattooga | 9.9% | 32.4% | 34.7% | $37,190 | 4,443 | 0.48 |
| Cherokee | 5.8% | 19.7% | 42.3% | $71,660 | 41,754 | 0.10 |
| Clarke | 11.4% | 34.0% | 39.8% | $54,274 | 15,192 | 0.56 |
| Clay | 15.0% | 32.5% | 35.9% | $49,708 | 838 | 0.60 |
| Clayton | 13.0% | 26.5% | 31.9% | $47,195 | 30,251 | 0.42 |
| Clinch | 23.0% | 20.2% | 35.2% | $40,857 | 1,055 | 0.51 |
| Cobb | 7.7% | 22.4% | 36.2% | $71,407 | 100,287 | 0.21 |
| Coffee | 18.0% | 27.2% | 29.9% | $32,350 | 6,004 | 0.55 |
| Colquitt | 17.0% | 30.5% | 39.2% | $32,564 | 6,905 | 0.60 |
| Columbia | 7.3% | 21.1% | 44.1% | $64,109 | 23,030 | 0.17 |
| Cook | 27.0% | 25.2% | 48.4% | $29,954 | 2,677 | 0.66 |
| Coweta | 6.5% | 22.5% | 37.6% | $59,586 | 21,920 | 0.18 |
| Crawford | 16.6% | 30.7% | 49.5% | $38,881 | 2,362 | 0.60 |
| Crisp | 13.1% | 30.2% | 32.4% | $32,774 | 3,764 | 0.51 |
| Dade | 9.2% | 23.2% | 73.3% | $42,533 | 3,247 | 0.26 |
| Dawson | 7.5% | 19.8% | 36.8% | $65,030 | 5,601 | 0.14 |
| Decatur | 11.5% | 27.7% | 41.9% | $43,015 | 4,742 | 0.41 |
| DeKalb | 10.1% | 28.8% | 38.4% | $58,490 | 99,801 | 0.41 |
| Dodge | 28.8% | 21.1% | 42.9% | $38,387 | 3,578 | 0.57 |
| Dooly | 6.7% | 21.3% | 56.3% | $55,979 | 2,134 | 0.16 |
| Dougherty | 16.0% | 34.1% | 39.0% | $43,198 | 13,877 | 0.66 |
| Douglas | 8.8% | 22.3% | 31.7% | $57,342 | 17,239 | 0.23 |
| Early | 16.1% | 30.7% | 45.4% | $39,740 | 1,982 | 0.59 |
| Echols | 8.5% | 25.9% | 27.5% | $52,742 | 468 | 0.30 |
| Effingham | 12.8% | 18.1% | 35.8% | $54,910 | 8,143 | 0.22 |
| Elbert | 13.5% | 31.8% | 35.7% | $39,136 | 4,015 | 0.55 |
| Emanuel | 15.0% | 32.1% | 40.5% | $36,803 | 3,559 | 0.59 |
| Evans | 15.5% | 27.9% | 42.0% | $39,200 | 1,821 | 0.51 |
| Fannin | 8.9% | 22.9% | 48.9% | $50,988 | 7,694 | 0.25 |
| Fayette | 4.4% | 19.3% | 33.9% | $74,428 | 23,200 | 0.06 |
| Floyd | 9.8% | 26.1% | 36.3% | $55,290 | 15,901 | 0.34 |
| Forsyth | 5.7% | 17.4% | 40.8% | $78,562 | 32,073 | 0.06 |
| Franklin | 15.2% | 23.0% | 43.3% | $42,552 | 4,357 | 0.39 |
| Fulton | 13.1% | 32.8% | 39.3% | $60,017 | 128,865 | 0.57 |
| Gilmer | 12.2% | 20.6% | 51.4% | $65,023 | 8,351 | 0.27 |
| Glascock | 18.4% | 25.6% | 52.6% | $35,000 | 461 | 0.52 |
| Glynn | 8.2% | 25.5% | 34.9% | $61,654 | 18,494 | 0.29 |
| Gordon | 12.5% | 25.9% | 42.8% | $44,521 | 8,761 | 0.40 |
| Grady | 14.6% | 26.9% | 41.8% | $40,331 | 4,802 | 0.47 |
| Greene | 6.7% | 21.1% | 60.0% | $80,172 | 5,867 | 0.15 |
| Gwinnett | 9.1% | 17.9% | 32.3% | $65,526 | 104,378 | 0.14 |
| Habersham | 11.6% | 22.4% | 43.6% | $53,125 | 8,809 | 0.30 |
| Hall | 8.8% | 20.7% | 38.5% | $62,899 | 32,789 | 0.19 |
| Hancock | 13.3% | 23.0% | 46.1% | $29,898 | 2,030 | 0.35 |
| Haralson | 13.2% | 25.6% | 42.9% | $39,934 | 4,723 | 0.40 |
| Harris | 8.0% | 17.2% | 34.7% | $64,493 | 6,636 | 0.11 |
| Hart | 11.8% | 26.1% | 58.5% | $44,051 | 5,765 | 0.38 |
| Heard | 10.8% | 29.2% | 39.2% | $39,360 | 1,960 | 0.43 |
| Henry | 7.8% | 25.1% | 35.7% | $59,963 | 29,789 | 0.27 |
| Houston | 8.9% | 23.6% | 34.1% | $61,882 | 21,864 | 0.26 |
| Irwin | 9.9% | 34.7% | 49.7% | $45,760 | 1,541 | 0.54 |
| Jackson | 9.7% | 18.1% | 51.7% | $56,362 | 11,458 | 0.15 |
| Jasper | 17.0% | 18.2% | 42.6% | $47,330 | 2,627 | 0.32 |
| Jeff Davis | 23.0% | 33.4% | 42.0% | $25,467 | 2,308 | 0.80 |
| Jefferson | 12.9% | 26.6% | 32.9% | $39,167 | 2,706 | 0.42 |
| Jenkins | 17.0% | 29.9% | 84.3% | $32,784 | 1,747 | 0.59 |
| Johnson | 9.3% | 28.5% | 44.9% | $46,017 | 1,590 | 0.38 |
| Jones | 10.7% | 28.1% | 43.2% | $49,324 | 5,046 | 0.40 |
| Lamar | 11.7% | 27.6% | 43.9% | $55,577 | 3,134 | 0.42 |
| Lanier | 25.6% | 24.9% | 13.9% | $30,762 | 1,402 | 0.66 |
| Laurens | 18.6% | 29.6% | 27.7% | $36,063 | 8,592 | 0.62 |
| Lee | 7.1% | 18.2% | 51.2% | $55,075 | 4,515 | 0.10 |
| Liberty | 16.0% | 25.0% | 32.8% | $49,429 | 6,481 | 0.45 |
| Lincoln | 16.9% | 24.2% | 41.7% | $42,346 | 1,962 | 0.46 |
| Long | 13.2% | 26.0% | 18.5% | $63,625 | 1,508 | 0.41 |
| Lowndes | 12.6% | 31.5% | 27.5% | $47,074 | 15,142 | 0.53 |
| Lumpkin | 6.4% | 20.7% | 64.3% | $65,679 | 6,084 | 0.14 |
| Macon | 24.6% | 27.5% | 60.0% | $25,025 | 1,915 | 0.71 |
| Madison | 15.1% | 17.6% | 35.0% | $48,030 | 5,491 | 0.28 |
| Marion | 11.6% | 23.9% | 57.8% | $43,929 | 1,531 | 0.33 |
| McDuffie | 13.6% | 18.9% | 41.4% | $43,010 | 3,916 | 0.26 |
| McIntosh | 12.6% | 19.2% | 45.0% | $46,285 | 3,279 | 0.25 |
| Meriwether | 16.9% | 28.1% | 48.3% | $40,766 | 4,270 | 0.54 |
| Miller | 21.2% | 32.0% | 35.3% | $26,365 | 1,163 | 0.73 |
| Mitchell | 19.2% | 29.0% | 34.3% | $39,688 | 3,631 | 0.62 |
| Monroe | 9.8% | 25.5% | 44.5% | $66,427 | 5,196 | 0.33 |
| Montgomery | 13.0% | 30.0% | 35.9% | $40,898 | 1,473 | 0.50 |
| Morgan | 6.0% | 18.2% | 50.6% | $60,357 | 4,101 | 0.07 |
| Murray | 12.5% | 23.9% | 45.5% | $39,632 | 5,894 | 0.35 |
| Muscogee | 17.1% | 34.2% | 30.4% | $42,589 | 28,669 | 0.69 |
| Newton | 8.5% | 21.7% | 41.9% | $54,542 | 15,039 | 0.21 |
| Oconee | 4.2% | 17.1% | 38.7% | $75,141 | 6,825 | 0.03 |
| Oglethorpe | 7.8% | 19.8% | 54.1% | $49,810 | 2,829 | 0.15 |
| Paulding | 7.6% | 20.8% | 41.3% | $58,406 | 19,739 | 0.17 |
| Peach | 11.9% | 35.0% | 46.8% | $41,780 | 4,595 | 0.59 |
| Pickens | 8.1% | 19.4% | 39.5% | $73,046 | 7,546 | 0.15 |
| Pierce | 14.1% | 25.2% | 45.4% | $38,859 | 3,344 | 0.42 |
| Pike | 9.5% | 24.9% | 31.4% | $55,392 | 3,082 | 0.30 |
| Polk | 11.2% | 29.0% | 34.2% | $37,371 | 6,608 | 0.44 |
| Pulaski | 15.9% | 21.3% | 49.6% | $49,030 | 2,158 | 0.37 |
| Putnam | 10.5% | 27.4% | 47.8% | $47,908 | 5,430 | 0.38 |
| Quitman | 6.9% | 37.0% | 69.5% | $34,673 | 698 | 0.52 |
| Rabun | 7.2% | 20.9% | 47.0% | $52,612 | 4,745 | 0.16 |
| Randolph | 30.5% | 41.2% | 38.8% | $19,720 | 1,251 | 1.00 |
| Richmond | 13.2% | 30.5% | 31.3% | $46,491 | 29,743 | 0.52 |
| Rockdale | 7.9% | 20.3% | 35.2% | $61,533 | 14,244 | 0.16 |
| Schley | 12.8% | 27.4% | 37.9% | $36,912 | 704 | 0.44 |
| Screven | 12.1% | 24.1% | 52.9% | $38,625 | 2,777 | 0.35 |
| Seminole | 15.3% | 23.4% | 51.1% | $54,228 | 2,216 | 0.40 |
| Spalding | 12.0% | 28.9% | 41.6% | $48,896 | 12,512 | 0.45 |
| Stephens | 14.4% | 26.1% | 36.6% | $38,329 | 5,439 | 0.44 |
| Stewart | 27.4% | 30.2% | 42.2% | $27,750 | 632 | 0.78 |
| Sumter | 15.1% | 27.5% | 42.4% | $34,874 | 4,882 | 0.49 |
| Talbot | 14.6% | 33.7% | 54.9% | $30,915 | 1,545 | 0.62 |
| Taliaferro | 20.4% | 22.5% | 40.2% | $45,000 | 466 | 0.50 |
| Tattnall | 24.5% | 30.1% | 39.3% | $33,911 | 3,425 | 0.76 |
| Taylor | 22.9% | 28.5% | 39.6% | $30,464 | 1,597 | 0.69 |
| Telfair | 22.6% | 24.2% | 46.8% | $32,063 | 1,994 | 0.59 |
| Terrell | 23.4% | 24.3% | 33.8% | $32,083 | 1,763 | 0.61 |
| Thomas | 13.7% | 26.2% | 28.5% | $44,698 | 8,234 | 0.43 |
| Tift | 12.8% | 34.2% | 30.5% | $39,745 | 6,192 | 0.59 |
| Toombs | 15.1% | 35.6% | 38.3% | $35,372 | 4,350 | 0.68 |
| Towns | 8.6% | 18.2% | 38.2% | $54,446 | 4,526 | 0.13 |
| Treutlen | 17.4% | 32.7% | 41.7% | $31,250 | 1,130 | 0.66 |
| Troup | 14.1% | 24.6% | 38.2% | $48,750 | 10,474 | 0.40 |
| Turner | 18.3% | 31.9% | 43.1% | $33,015 | 1,680 | 0.66 |
| Twiggs | 15.1% | 25.9% | 65.3% | $47,803 | 1,834 | 0.45 |
| Union | 7.9% | 25.8% | 55.7% | $57,067 | 8,432 | 0.29 |
| Upson | 18.6% | 32.7% | 41.8% | $35,363 | 4,861 | 0.69 |
| Walker | 11.0% | 27.3% | 39.0% | $40,107 | 12,687 | 0.39 |
| Walton | 10.1% | 22.5% | 38.0% | $50,478 | 15,623 | 0.26 |
| Ware | 18.2% | 30.1% | 42.5% | $39,545 | 5,834 | 0.62 |
| Warren | 17.3% | 27.8% | 47.4% | $34,338 | 1,155 | 0.55 |
| Washington | 14.8% | 32.7% | 42.7% | $36,326 | 3,375 | 0.60 |
| Wayne | 12.3% | 25.2% | 35.7% | $36,380 | 4,684 | 0.38 |
| Webster | 13.3% | 40.5% | 37.9% | $27,895 | 457 | 0.73 |
| Wheeler | 27.8% | 24.3% | 52.4% | $31,652 | 1,057 | 0.64 |
| White | 7.8% | 17.3% | 44.2% | $56,447 | 6,419 | 0.11 |
| Whitfield | 10.6% | 27.1% | 41.7% | $43,833 | 14,904 | 0.38 |
| Wilcox | 18.2% | 25.4% | 47.6% | $33,672 | 1,478 | 0.51 |
| Wilkes | 15.2% | 39.7% | 60.1% | $40,188 | 2,220 | 0.77 |
| Wilkinson | 16.3% | 31.9% | 35.7% | $38,553 | 1,711 | 0.62 |
| Worth | 15.0% | 30.8% | 39.2% | $41,406 | 4,042 | 0.56 |
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