This video and story about Midtown Atlanta is one of seven about neighborhood issues in the Atlanta mayor’s race by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Midtown Atlanta is an expansive community that boasts high-rises full of young professionals, student housing for Georgia Tech and affluent single-family neighborhoods. In addition to being an epicenter for business, it’s home to some of Atlanta’s most treasured landmarks, including Piedmont Park, the Fox Theatre and the High Museum of Art, and is the center of LGBTQ life in the city.
Midtown is in the middle of a dramatic boom in development.
Demographics
Population: 52,616
Median household income: $83,196
Median age: 29
Race: 60% white, 17.4% Black, 13% Asian, 5.7% Hispanic or Latino, 3.8% other
Unemployment rate: 3.1% (this could have changed since COVID)
Poverty rate: 16.1%
Median home value (of owner-occupied units): $320,827
Percent of rental units: 60.9%
Percent of owner-occupied units: 39.1%
Percent of rents above $1,000: 73.4%
ABOUT THE VIDEO: Video by Ryon Horne, Tyson Horne and Hyosub Shin. Reporting by Tyler Estep.
Midtown Atlanta map
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