56,579 Stonecrest (incorporated 2016) pop. The Canopy Walk is the only canopy-level pathway of its kind in the United States. [227][228] Contemporary art museums include the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. The department also protects HartsfieldJackson with five fire stations on the property, serving over 1million passengers from over 100 countries. [195][196] The Weather Channel is also based just outside of the city in suburban Cobb County. The median age in Atlanta is 7% lower than Georgia. Although municipal elections are officially nonpartisan, nearly all of the city's elected officials are registered Democrats. [235] While the games experienced transportation and accommodation problems and, despite extra security precautions, there was the Centennial Olympic Park bombing,[67] the spectacle was a watershed event in Atlanta's history. S1901 | 2021 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. [293], Several other, less popular sports also have professional franchises in Atlanta. [47] In 1953, Van Leer assisted with helping Lockheed establish a research and development and production line in Marietta. [129] Hispanics of any race made up 6.0% of the city's population. Rainwater that falls on the south and east side of the divide flows into the Atlantic Ocean, while rainwater on the north and west side of the divide flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Population Change + 11.2%. [13], Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several railroads, spurring its rapid growth. [118] January averages 44.8F (7.1C), with temperatures in the suburbs slightly cooler due largely to the urban heat island effect. Users should exercise caution when comparing 2017-2021 ACS 5-year estimates to other ACS estimates. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the population of Atlanta is 498,715, although the metropolitan area (comprising twenty-eight counties and more than 6,000 square miles) has a population of more than 6 million. [119] The heaviest single snowfall occurred on January 23, 1940, with around 10 inches (25cm) of snow. The river borders the far northwestern edge of the city, and much of its natural habitat has been preserved, in part by the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. [40] In the 1880 Census, Atlanta had surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city. April 25, 2023, 10:48am EDT. [305] The city hosts the Peachtree Road Race, the world's largest 10 km race, annually on Independence Day. Marshal[s] Service. The least populous of the compared neighborhoods has a population of 2,639. Although unemployment had decreased to 7% by late 2014, this was still higher than the national unemployment rate of 5.8%[210] Atlanta's housing market has also struggled, with home prices dropping by 2.1% in January 2012, reaching levels not seen since 1996. [411], This article is about the city in the U.S. state of Georgia. At 1,023 feet (312m), it is the tallest building in the city and the 14th-tallest in the United States. [377] Delta Air Lines maintains its largest hub at the airport. This population estimate is for the 12 months ending in April 2022. In Rugby union, on September 21, 2018, Major League Rugby announced that Atlanta was one of the expansion teams joining the league for the 2020 season[294] named Rugby ATL. Fan reception has been very positive; the team has broken several single-game and season attendance records for both MLS and the U.S. Open Cup. The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom. [155] Because of the development of corporate headquarters in the region, attracting migrants from other areas of the country, by 2003, Atlanta magazine concluded that Atlanta had become significantly "de-Southernized". The Falcons have won the division title six times (1980, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2016) and the NFC championship in 1998 and 2016. The metro area population of Atlanta in 2022 was 6,013,000, a 1.73% increase from 2021. [130][154] Atlanta's dialect has traditionally been a variation of Southern American English. [69] Atlanta is also home to a large African immigrant community. [392] Nevertheless, Forbes ranked Atlanta as the sixth most dangerous city in the United States in 2012. [167], With a GDP of $385billion,[168] the Atlanta metropolitan area's economy is the 11th-largest in the country and the 22nd-largest in the world. [149] There is a growing presence of Mexicans throughout the 10-county region. Institutions of higher education contribute to Atlanta's art scene, with the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta campus providing the city's arts community with a steady stream of curators, and Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum containing the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast. For more details, Other notable city parks include Centennial Olympic Park, a legacy of the 1996 Summer Olympics that forms the centerpiece of the city's tourist district; Woodruff Park, which anchors the campus of Georgia State University; Grant Park, home to Zoo Atlanta; Chastain Park, which houses an amphitheater used for live music concerts; and the under construction Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry, the 280-acre green space and reservoir project slated to become the city's largest park when fully complete in the 2020s. Atlanta, GA Home Menu. [403][404][405] The city's main street is named after a tree, and beyond the Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead business districts, the skyline gives way to a dense canopy of woods that spreads into the suburbs. [245][246] On the other hand, Gone With the Wind (1939), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Sharkys Machine (1981), The Slugger's Wife (1985), Driving Miss Daisy (1989),[247] ATL (2006), Ride Along (2014) and Baby Driver (2017) are among several notable examples of films actually set in Atlanta. Atlanta Daily World is the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta and one of the earliest and most influential black newspapers in American history. Corporate operations play a major role in Atlanta's economy, as the city claims the nation's third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies (tied for third with Chicago). WGTV 8 is the flagship station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network, while WABE-TV is owned by Atlanta Public Schools. Increased racial tensions led to the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906, when whites attacked blacks, leaving at least 27 people dead and over 70 injured, with extensive damage in black neighborhoods. 1 In Film Production With Perry, 'Ozark,' More", "Georgia's film industry generates $9.5 billion economic impact in fiscal 2017", "Atlanta is the 10th most popular city for TV and film production in the world", "Business boosters admit Atlanta in 'crisis' amid effort to boost city's economy", "Metro Atlanta unemployment rate falls to 7 percent", "In Atlanta, Housing Woes Reflect Nation's Pain", "Presenting: The Worst Housing Market in the Country", "Atlanta rent growth among nation's fastest", "Atlanta housing price gains have (yikes) nearly doubled national average", "Atlanta named among America's fastest-growing economies in new ranking", "Foreign-born population continues to grow in metro Atlanta", "Alliance Theatre Season Atlanta's National Treasure", "New SCAD-Atlanta museum dedicated to fashion to open in October", "Michael C. Carlos Museum Pictures, Atlanta, GA AOL Travel", "The 19 Best Cities To See Street Art In The United States", "New website provides street art map to murals all over Atlanta", "Rock's Top Southern Sound Viewed as Lynyrd Skynyrd", "Atlanta punk! [330] Atlanta also plays an important role in the federal judiciary system, containing the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. 498,044 Places with 75,000 to 99,999 inhabitants South Fulton (incorporated 2017) pop. [189] Delta Air Lines, the city's largest employer and the metro area's third-largest, operates the world's largest airline hub at Hartsfield-Jackson, and it has helped make it the world's busiest airport, in terms of both passenger traffic and aircraft operations. According to a survey by the Williams Institute, Atlanta ranked third among major American cities, behind San Francisco and slightly behind Seattle, with 12.8% of the city's total population identifying as LGBT. The national average is 8.7 percent in 2016. Originally established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871, they are the oldest continually operating professional sports franchise in the United States. The nickname is factually accurate, as vegetation covers 47.9% of the city as of 2017,[406] the highest among all major American cities, and well above the national average of 27%. Much of southern Atlanta is in the 13th district, represented by Democrat David Scott. [146] Within a few decades, and in keeping with national trends, immigrants from England, Ireland, and German-speaking central Europe were no longer the majority of Atlanta's foreign-born population. Atlanta, GA 30303 USA. Later, John Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlanta. [220], Atlanta is one of few United States cities with permanent, professional, and resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Atlanta Opera), ballet (Atlanta Ballet), orchestral music (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra), and theater (the Alliance Theatre). twice in international friendlies. [34] Georgia Tech's president Blake R. Van Leer played an important role with a goal of making Atlanta the home of the "MIT of the South. [27] Through the early 19th century, European Americans systematically encroached on the Creek of northern Georgia, forcing them out of the area from 1802 to 1825. [106] The eastside is marked by historic streetcar suburbs, built from the 1890s1930s as havens for the upper middle class. About 7.6% worked at home.[387]. [404] Fees are additionally imposed on developers that remove trees on their property per a citywide ordinance, active since 1993. After World War II, it also became a manufacturing and technology hub. [233] During the countercultural 1960s, Atlanta hosted the Atlanta International Pop Festival, with the 1969 festival taking place more than a month before Woodstock and featuring many of the same bands. Estimates are not comparable to other geographic levels due to methodology differences that may exist between different data sources. Of these, 9,571, or 4%, are children . The city has also become one of a handful of "scooter capitals", where companies like Lime[388] and Bird[389][390] have gained a major foothold by placing electric scooters on street corners and byways. [290] They won MLS Cup 2018, defeating the Portland Timbers 20. An AJC analysis shows a 47% Black population in 2020. A 2001 study found Atlanta's heavy tree cover declined from 48% in 1974 to 38% in 1996. where 12 percent of the population is of Asian heritage. ", "Atlanta's moniker, City of Trees, focus of new book", "Marcel Breuer's Central Library in Atlanta to be renovated and NOT demolished", "What do Atlanta's big law firms see in Midtown? Compared with a year earlier, the average home price in Atlanta plummeted to 17.3% in February 2012, thus becoming the largest annual drop in the history of the index for any American or global city. [355], The primary network-affiliated television stations in Atlanta are WXIA-TV 11 (NBC),[356] WANF 46 (CBS),[357] WSB-TV 2 (ABC),[358] and WAGA-TV 5 (Fox). [319], Atlanta offers resources and opportunities for amateur and participatory sports and recreation. [142], Early immigrants in the Atlanta area were mostly Jews and Greeks. [169][170] It also hosts the global headquarters of several corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company,[171] The Home Depot,[172] Delta Air Lines,[173] Arby's,[174] AT&T Mobility,[175] Georgia-Pacific,[176] Chick-fil-A,[177] Church's Chicken,[178] Dunkin Donuts,[179] Norfolk Southern Railway,[180] Mercedes-Benz USA,[181] NAPA Auto Parts, Papa Johns,[182] Porsche AG,[183] Newell Brands, Marble Slab Creamery, and UPS. [97] More recently, preservationists may have made some inroads. The city council consists of one member from each of the city's 12 districts and three at-large members. It's going to be torn down", "The rise and fall and rise again of Atlanta trap music", "Here are the movies being filmed in Atlanta right now", "How much did 'Fast & Furious 8' spend filming in Georgia? In Atlanta 52.37% of the population is Black. [279] In addition, many of the city's universities participate in collegiate sports. [21] Its economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors in industries including transportation, aerospace, logistics, healthcare, news and media operations, film and television production, information technology, finance, and biomedical research and public policy. [86] The city is situated in the Deep South of the southeastern United States among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Atlanta also boast American Bar Association accredited law schools: Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, Emory University School of Law, and Georgia State University College of Law. [50][51], African-American veterans returned from World War II seeking full rights in their country and began heightened activism. The city frequently hosts touring Broadway acts, especially at The Fox Theatre, a historic landmark among the highest-grossing theaters of its size. [15] During the 1950s and 1960s, it became a major organizing center of the American Civil Rights Movement, with Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and many other locals becoming prominent figures in the movement's leadership. 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In the latter half of the 1980s, Atlanta became one of the early homes of postmodern buildings that reintroduced classical elements to their designs. Atlanta is projected to have a population of around 590,000 people by 2030. Most Asians in Atlanta are of Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Pakistani and Japanese descent. Our Changing Population: Georgia. They have been unsuccessful in both of their Super Bowl trips, losing to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999 and to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI in 2017,[286] the largest comeback in Super Bowl history. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. Yet architecturally, the city had never been traditionally "southern" because Atlanta originated as a railroad town, rather than a southern seaport dominated by the planter class, such as Savannah or Charleston. State of Georgia government websites and email systems use "georgia.gov" or "ga.gov" at the end of the address. A lock ( Two-fifths of previous public housing residents attained new housing in such units; the remainder received vouchers to be used at other units, including in suburbs. Click the Quick Info icon to the left of each row in TABLE view to learn about sampling error. [214][215][216], Atlanta is noted for its lack of Southern culture. [288] The Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association shared an arena with the Hawks for most of their existence; however the WNBA team moved to a smaller arena in the southern Atlanta suburb of College Park in 2021. The Atlanta metropolitan area is served by two public television stations (both PBS member stations), and two public radio stations. [105], Surrounding Atlanta's three high-rise districts are the city's low- and medium-density neighborhoods,[105] where the craftsman bungalow single-family home is dominant. The vintage year (e.g., V2022) refers to the final year of the series (2020 thru 2022). [10] Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over 1,000 feet (300m) above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States.