The 10 Worst Atlanta Suburbs

The 10 Worst Atlanta Suburbs To Live For 2024

We’ll get the ball rolling with Forest Park, the absolute worst place to live around Atlanta according to the data.

And in the world of worst rankings, Forest Park beat the competition pretty handily thanks to scoring in the bottom 15% in three major categories. Income is the 2nd worst in the Atlanta area, and to make matters worse, the city ranks worst when it comes to home values.

But hey, at least it’s cheap to live there. But there’s a reason for that… it’s Forest Park.

You won’t feel bad about not having a great income for the area. There aren’t a bunch of places to spend your money anyway.

Welcome to Morrow. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 13.7 miles to Atlanta. Income levels here are the 19th lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $64,890 a year, which only goes so far even on a shoestring budget.

But on the bright side, there are a lot of fast food joints in the area.

Back up the highway we go for the third worst Atlanta suburb you can live in. You might have expected to see Jonesboro on here. While the cost of living is low, your entertainment and work options are limited. And that’s an understatement.

In terms of numbers, it’s in the worst 15% for insurance, and the adult high school dropout rate is poor compared to other Atlanta suburbs.

But at least there are lovely parks to bring the kids during the day.

If you live in Lithonia, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the 4th lowest Atlanta suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the 6th worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Atlanta. Remember, we looked at 53 cities for this study.

Lithonia is about 18.5 miles to downtown.

College Park has the distinction of being a Atlanta suburb. Which means that’s about all it has going for it.

All snarkiness aside, College Park has the 13th lowest home values in the metro Atlanta area, where the median price is $292,210. The median income is $153,882.

College Park has an unemployment rate of 12.97% which ranks worst.

Palmetto has 4,650 residents that probably know it’s a pretty crummy place to live when you look at the data. (Or, if you’ve ever been there, you don’t need to look at the data.)

Incomes are towards the bottom, and the poverty rate sits at 11.717391304347824%.

Ah, Conyers. You rank as the 7th worst place to live around Atlanta.

It’s the place with the 3rd most out of work residents in the Atlanta metro area (10.54%).

Clarkston is a city about 10.9 miles from Atlanta, but Atlanta probably wishes it was further away. It ranks as the 8th worst burb for 2018.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a worse place to live. Clarkston has the 12th most uninsured people, 7th worst incomes, and has the 5th highest unemployment rate (8.62%) in the entire Atlanta metro area.

Homes only cost $273,169 for a reason. That’s cheap for Atlanta standards.

If you absolutely have to live near Atlanta, then Union City might be a place for you to consider as it’s only the 9th worst Atlanta suburb.

About 4.63% of residents are out of work.

Rounding out the ten worst Atlanta suburbs to call home is East Point.

Located 6.9 miles outside the city, East Points is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 7th highest unemployment rate (7.14%), and poverty is far above the area average.