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Abortion and reproductive rights

Access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.

Georgia snapshot7,130

Abortions reported by Georgia providers

2025 reporting year

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Abortions performed during 2025 and included in Georgia Department of Public Health physician and facility reports in the 2025 Woman's Right to Know annual report.

By reported method

Suction curettage: 2,767
Dilation and evacuation: 187
Mifepristone: 4,176

How it was measured: Annual compliance reports submitted by physicians and facilities to the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Keep in mind

This provider-reporting total is not a count of every abortion obtained by Georgia residents, including care outside the state.
The report's gestational-determination subtotal does not reconcile to the method total, so FactVote uses the three reported methods that sum exactly to the headline.

Georgia Department of Public Health ↗

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Protect abortion accessRestrict abortion access

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Housing and property costs

Housing supply, affordability, renters, zoning, and property costs.

Georgia snapshot$1,393/month

Median gross rent

2020–2024 estimate

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Median monthly gross rent for occupied rental units paying cash rent, including contract rent and estimated tenant-paid utilities.

Other statewide housing measures

Median owner-occupied home value: $303,300
Owner costs with a mortgage: $1,783/month
Owner-occupied housing rate: 65.7%

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

This statewide multi-year estimate can differ substantially from current asking rents and local conditions.
Owner measures describe occupied homes and do not estimate today's purchase price or mortgage rate.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

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Expand affordable housingLower property costs

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Healthcare

Coverage, prescription costs, Medicaid, and access to care.

Georgia snapshot14.0%

People under 65 without health insurance

2024 ACS annual estimate

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Share of Georgia’s civilian noninstitutionalized residents under age 65 who lacked comprehensive health-insurance coverage at the time of the ACS survey.

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

This excludes people age 65 and older and is a annual survey estimate, not a current enrollment count.
Insurance status does not measure affordability, provider access, coverage adequacy, or care quality.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Expand coverage and accessEmphasize choice and competition

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Education

Public schools, school choice, teachers, and higher education.

Georgia snapshot89.2%

Adults with at least a high school diploma

2020–2024 estimate

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Share of Georgia residents age 25 and older whose reported attainment is a regular high school diploma or equivalent (including GED or an alternative credential), some college, or an associate’s or higher degree.

Additional attainment measure

Bachelor's degree or higher: 34.9%

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

This measures adult attainment, not current K–12 graduation rates or school performance.
It includes people educated in different jurisdictions and time periods.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Invest in public schoolsExpand school choice

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Gun policy and public safety

Firearm rights, gun-safety rules, and violence prevention.

Georgia snapshot1,985

Firearm deaths

2024 final data

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Deaths in which firearm injury was recorded as the underlying cause, with the rate age-adjusted per 100,000 residents.

Georgia compared with the U.S.

Age-adjusted firearm death rate

Georgia: 17.6 per 100,000
United States: 13.1 per 100,000

Georgia's rate was 4.5 deaths per 100,000 higher than the national rate.

Both rates use 2024 National Vital Statistics System mortality data and are age-adjusted.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ↗

Population-adjusted measure

Age-adjusted firearm death rate: 17.6 per 100,000

How it was measured: CDC National Vital Statistics System death-certificate data published through CDC WONDER and Stats of the States.

Keep in mind

The total combines firearm homicides, suicides, accidents, legal-intervention deaths, and deaths of undetermined intent.
It does not measure nonfatal injuries, defensive uses, ownership, or the effect of a specific policy.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ↗

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Strengthen gun-safety lawsProtect gun rights

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Immigration and border policy

Border enforcement, legal immigration, and pathways to citizenship.

Georgia snapshot11.2%

Residents who are foreign-born

2020–2024 estimate

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Share of Georgia residents who were not U.S. citizens at birth, including naturalized citizens, lawful noncitizens, and people without lawful status.

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

Foreign-born is not a measure of unauthorized immigration or border crossings.
The survey does not assign legal status and this statewide estimate does not show recent arrivals or local distribution.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

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Prioritize border enforcementCreate legal pathways

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Environment and energy

Clean water, conservation, climate, and energy production.

Georgia snapshot12.5%

Electricity generated from renewable resources

2024

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Share of electricity generated at Georgia facilities from renewable energy resources during 2024.

Renewable-share calculation

Renewable generation: 17,491,977 MWh
Total in-state generation: 139,805,428 MWh

Other major generation sources

Natural gas: 40.7%
Nuclear: 34.3%
Coal: 12.8%

How it was measured: FactVote sums EIA's 2024 hydroelectric, other-biomass, solar, and wood generation and divides by total electric-industry generation, then rounds to one decimal place.

Keep in mind

This is in-state electricity generation, not total energy use or the generation mix of imported electricity.
The percentage alone does not measure emissions, reliability, affordability, or land use.

U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗

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Georgia snapshot$3.86/gal

Lower Atlantic regular gasoline price

Week of September 7, 2026

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Estimated average retail price of regular-grade gasoline across all formulations, including taxes, in EIA's Lower Atlantic petroleum subdistrict. The region includes Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Georgia compared with the U.S.

Regular gasoline price

Georgia: $3.860/gal
United States: $4.157/gal

The Lower Atlantic average was 29.7 cents per gallon lower, or about 7.1% below the U.S. average.

Both figures are EIA weekly retail estimates for regular gasoline, including taxes, for the week of September 7, 2026. The Georgia-side figure is the Lower Atlantic regional average, not a Georgia statewide estimate.

U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗

Recent weekly prices

Prior week: $3.783/gal
Weekly change: +7.7¢
One year earlier: $2.949/gal
Change from one year earlier: +91.1¢

How it was measured: U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly retail motor-gasoline survey estimate for the Lower Atlantic region. FactVote displays the published dollars-per-gallon value and calculates changes from EIA's published prior-week and nearest year-earlier weekly observations.

Keep in mind

EIA does not publish a current Georgia statewide weekly gasoline-price series; this Lower Atlantic regional estimate should not be read as Georgia's statewide average.
The regional estimate combines six states and does not represent the price at every station or in every Georgia community.
The series is nominal and not adjusted for inflation or seasonal patterns, and weekly estimates can be revised.

U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗

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Prioritize conservation and clean energyExpand domestic energy production

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Taxes and the economy

Taxes, government spending, jobs, wages, and small business.

Georgia snapshot$77,353

Median household income

2020–2024 estimate

Understand this number

Median money income received by Georgia households, expressed in inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars.

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

Household income is not take-home pay and does not account directly for taxes, benefits, household size, debt, or local costs.
This multi-year survey estimate is not a current economic forecast.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Lower taxes and spendingInvest in workers and services

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Voting, democracy, and government accountability

Voting access, election administration, ethics, transparency, and corruption.

Georgia snapshot

73.83%

Active registered-voter turnout

November 5, 2024 general election

28.19%

Primary election turnout

May 19, 2026 general primary

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The U.S. Election Assistance Commission's state-reported 2024 general-election voter total as a share of Georgia's active registered voters.

Latest official turnout comparison

General: Nov. 5, 2024 · Primary: May 19, 2026

General election turnout: 73.83%
Primary election turnout: 28.19%

The general rate is recalculated from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's state-reported active-voter totals; the primary rate is recalculated from Georgia's complete 159-county official results table.

This is not a within-cycle or like-for-like denominator comparison: the general measure uses active registered voters, while the primary table labels its denominator simply as voters.

Georgia Secretary of State ↗

Official participation totals

2024 general voters: 5,297,500
2024 active registered voters: 7,174,961
2026 primary ballots cast: 2,077,082
2026 primary voters: 7,368,167

How it was measured: FactVote divides the EAC's published Georgia total of 5,297,500 voters by 7,174,961 active registered voters and rounds to two decimals. For the primary comparison, FactVote independently sums ballots cast and voter denominators across all 159 counties in the Secretary of State's certified table and also rounds to two decimals.

Keep in mind

The EAC administrative turnout total is 236 higher than the Georgia Secretary of State's certified ballot-audit total, reflecting different administrative compilations; it should not be treated as a certified contest vote count.
Georgia's 2024 results site reports zero registered voters but nonzero ballots for Clay and Peach counties, so FactVote does not use that incomplete table to calculate the general-election rate.
The general and primary comparison spans different election cycles and denominator conventions, and registered-voter turnout is not voting-eligible-population turnout.

U.S. Election Assistance Commission ↗

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Expand voting accessIncrease election safeguardsStrengthen ethics and transparency

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Public safety and criminal justice

Policing, crime prevention, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation.

Georgia snapshot328 per 100,000

Reported violent-crime rate

2024

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Violent offenses reported to law enforcement per 100,000 residents in participating jurisdictions.

How it was measured: FactVote sums the 12 monthly state offense rates returned by the FBI Crime Data Explorer for each calendar year. The accompanying coverage value is the mean of the 12 monthly population-coverage percentages returned with the same query.

Keep in mind

These are crimes reported to law enforcement, not all crimes that occurred.
Georgia's average monthly population coverage was below 90% in 2019 and 2020; those years are flagged and should not be treated as directly comparable with the higher-coverage years.
Reporting systems, agency participation, and later revisions can change the published series.
Average monthly population coverage in 2024 was 92.7%; this is not complete statewide reporting.

Federal Bureau of Investigation ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Georgia snapshot1,708.3 per 100,000

Reported property-crime rate

2024

Understand this number

Property offenses reported to law enforcement per 100,000 residents in participating jurisdictions.

Keep in mind

These are crimes reported to law enforcement, not all crimes that occurred.
Georgia's average monthly population coverage was below 90% in 2019 and 2020; those years are flagged and should not be treated as directly comparable with the higher-coverage years.
Reporting systems, agency participation, and later revisions can change the published series.
Average monthly population coverage in 2024 was 92.7%; this is not complete statewide reporting.

Federal Bureau of Investigation ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Georgia snapshot50,261

People in Georgia's prison system

December 31, 2025

Understand this number

Year-end Georgia prison-system population, including state prisons, county prisons, transition centers, private prisons, and inmate boot camps as defined by the department.

How it was measured: Georgia Department of Corrections administrative year-end count.

Keep in mind

This does not include every person in local jail, on probation or parole, or in federal custody.
The count does not measure reported crime, victimization, arrests, convictions, sentence length, recidivism, or capacity by itself.

Georgia Department of Corrections ↗

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Emphasize policing and enforcementEmphasize prevention and justice reform

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Social Security, Medicare, and retirement

Retirement benefits, Medicare, and the long-term financing of these programs.

Georgia snapshot2,081,735

Georgians receiving Social Security benefits

December 2025

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People in Georgia whose Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits were in current-payment status in December 2025.

Georgia compared with the U.S.

Residents receiving Social Security benefits

Georgia: 18.4%
United States: 20.1%

Georgia's share was 1.7 percentage points lower than the national share.

Both shares use December 2025 beneficiaries in current-payment status and Census resident-population estimates.

Social Security Administration ↗

Benefit categories

Retired workers: 1,559,957
Disabled workers: 234,325
Widow(er)s and parents: 110,316
Spouses: 46,470
Children: 130,667

How it was measured: Social Security Administration Master Beneficiary Record data assigned geographically using U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 data.

Keep in mind

The total includes retirement, survivor, dependent, and disability beneficiaries and is not limited to retirees.
People whose benefits were withheld are excluded; residence is assigned from administrative mailing information.

Social Security Administration ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Protect or expand benefitsChange benefits to address long-term costs

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Foreign policy and diplomacy

Diplomacy, alliances, and the use of U.S. military force abroad.

Strengthen diplomacy and alliancesLimit U.S. military intervention abroad

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Veterans and military families

Veterans' care, benefits, housing, work, and transition to civilian life.

Protect or expand veterans' care and benefitsExpand veterans' housing, education, and work support

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National defense

Military readiness, modernization, and defense spending.

Invest in military readiness and modernizationReduce military spending

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Digital privacy and surveillance

Personal data rights and limits on surveillance.

Strengthen personal data rightsLimit government and workplace surveillance

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Artificial intelligence

AI safeguards, accountability, research, and development.

Set AI rules and safeguardsInvest in AI research and development

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Libraries and access to books

Public library services and access to books.

Support and expand library servicesProtect access to library books

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