Report Says City of DeKalb Would Be At Financial Disadvantage
Median income, home values would be below those of the county as a whole and most cities in DeKalb.
What would a "City of DeKalb" be like? It would not be as affluent as DeKalb County or most of the current cities in DeKalb, according to a story in CrossRoads News. The story told about a report from the Carl Vinson Institute (CVI) at the University of Georgia. CVI’s demographer Matt Hauer showed that the median household income for the county as a whole is $51,349, while the median income for unincorporated DeKalb is $36,000. Of the county’s 11 current cities, five – Avondale Estates, Decatur, Dunwoody, Brookhaven and Atlanta – are at or above the county level. Only Clarkston at $31,741 and Lithonia at $26,410 have less median income. When a comparison of median home values, which are important to tax digests, is done, an even greater …
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Bruce Mitchell
4:35 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
The sad truth is that if there were any truly creative republicans out there many Democratic elected officials in Dekalb county would be in trouble. Most Republicans in GA are either thinly veiled racists or one issue demagogues that only appeal to the ill informed or those who truly have a vested interest in the issue, which is usually a small % of the their electorate. This is too bad because … more ›