Last month, in celebration of the Super Bowl, we shared data from our 100 Metros dashboard for the Kansas City and Philadelphia metro areas. This month’s regional snapshot takes a deeper dive on the 100 Metros Data Dashboard given its most recent update. This dashboard presents population (including age and race), employment, income, housing, public health, and other varied data about the 100 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the country. The major takeaways for the 2023 update are as follows:
- The number of non-farm jobs in the Atlanta MSA ranks as the 8th largest in the nation among the top 100 metros, but the change in jobs from 2021 to 2022 ranks as the 6th largest gain in employment nationally.
- The Atlanta MSA median home sale price was roughly $350,000 in Q1 2022, which was the 44th highest nationally. However, that median price had jumped 25.4% since Q1 2021, the 10th highest increase across the 100 metros over that 12-month period.
- The metro population ranks as the 8th largest in the country, recently surpassing the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach MSA for this slot in the rankings. The Atlanta MSA added 43,000 residents from 2021-2022, ranking 6th.
- Atlanta’s Non-Hispanic Black population of just over 2.1 million residents ranks as the second-largest such population of the top 100 metros, trailing only the New York-Newark-Jersey City MSA.
- A total of 39,466 building permits were issued in the Atlanta MSA in 2021, 6th highest among the top 100 metros. Of these, 31,789 were specifically single-family housing permits, a number which ranks as the 4th highest nationally.
- The Atlanta median household income of $77,589 ranks as the 30th highest among the 100 metros. However, roughly 48.4% of the metro population earns less than $75,000 annually.
For more highlights, including comparisons of Atlanta to select peer metros, click through the slides below, explore the dashboard on your own, or download the 100 Metros PDF.