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Public money

How Georgia funds state services

The FY2027 signed appropriations bill, audited statewide tax revenue, and appropriations by service area. Each section keeps its own fiscal period and accounting scope; state and local taxes are separate.

Enacted budget plan

$76.6BFY2027
Signed with vetoes May 12, 2026

FY2027 bill-stated all-funds budget

July 1, 2026–June 30, 2027

Exact reported total: $76,575,401,050

The total funds amount printed in signed H.B. 974. It is a gross appropriation that includes federal, other, state, and intra-state government funding; the governor also issued line-item vetoes and directed agencies to withhold allotments for more than $300 million of authorized new spending.

Georgia Office of the Governor: H.B. 974 FY2027 Budget — Signed Bill, Disregard Letter, and Line-Item Vetoes

FY2027

How the enacted budget is financed

$76.6B$76,575,401,050

The total funds amount printed in signed H.B. 974. It is a gross appropriation that includes federal, other, state, and intra-state government funding; the governor also issued line-item vetoes and directed agencies to withhold allotments for more than $300 million of authorized new spending.

State funds$38.5B · 50.3%

State general, lottery, motor-fuel, provider-fee, trust, settlement, and other state-dedicated funds identified in the bill.

Federal funds and recovery$24.7B · 32.2%

Federal funds and grants plus the separately identified federal recovery funds.

Other funds$7.6B · 9.9%

Agency, research, public-hospital, records-center, and other funds identified by the bill.

Intra-state government transfers$5.8B · 7.6%

Payments between state entities, including health-insurance and Medicaid-service payments; these make the headline a gross rather than consolidated total.

FY2025 audited actual

Where state tax revenue comes from

$32.7B$32,680,358,000

Shares of the $32.7 billion in taxes reported as general revenue by Georgia's governmental activities. The denominator excludes grants, charges for services, lottery proceeds, provider fees, tobacco-settlement revenue, investment income, and business-type activities.

Individual income taxes$15.3B · 46.8%

Audited state individual income tax general revenue.

General sales and use taxes$9.4B · 28.7%

Audited state general sales and use tax revenue.

Corporate taxes$3.3B · 10.1%

Audited state corporate tax general revenue.

Motor-fuel taxes$2.2B · 6.8%

Audited state motor-fuel tax general revenue.

Motor-vehicle license and title ad valorem taxes$1.3B · 4.0%

The ACFR's combined motor-vehicle license and title ad valorem tax line.

Other taxes$1.2B · 3.6%

The remaining audited state tax general revenue reported by the ACFR.

FY2027 signed appropriations bill

FY2027 bill-stated spending plan

$76.6B$76,575,401,050

Every agency-level Total Funds amount printed in H.B. 974 is assigned exactly once to one of these service areas. The groups reconcile to the bill-stated all-funds total before applying line-item vetoes and directed allotment withholdings.

Education$31.9B · 41.6%

K-12 education, early care and learning, university and technical-college systems, student finance, and teachers retirement.

Health and human services$31.6B · 41.3%

Community health, behavioral health and developmental disabilities, human services, public health, and veterans services.

Transportation$4.6B · 6.1%

The Department of Transportation's agency-level Total Funds appropriation.

Public safety and justice$3.9B · 5.1%

Courts, prosecutors, public defense, corrections, community supervision, juvenile justice, public safety, investigation, defense, pardons and paroles, and the Department of Law.

General government and debt$3.5B · 4.6%

Legislative, executive, administrative, regulatory, tax, audit, election, employee-retirement, property, workers-compensation, and general-obligation debt functions.

Economic development and natural resources$969.7M · 1.3%

Agriculture, community affairs, economic development, forestry, labor, and natural resources.

Tax structure

Common statewide rates

Property and district rates can be local. Each card states the applicable scope.

Latest audited results

Fiscal year ended June 30, 2025

Audited government-wide activity for Georgia's primary government. Revenue is the ACFR's reported program and general revenue before contributions to permanent endowments and internal transfers; these accrual-accounting results are not the FY2027 appropriation.

Georgia State Accounting Office: FY2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
Government-wide revenue
$83.0B
Government-wide expenses
$79.0B
Method, scope, and limitations

FactVote used the signed H.B. 974 package, captured each agency section's printed Total Funds amount, and assigned all 51 sections exactly once to a service area. The spending groups therefore reconcile to the bill's printed gross total, while the post-signing veto and allotment actions are disclosed separately. Audited tax-source shares and government-wide results come from the FY2025 ACFR; appropriations and audited accrual results are never mixed.

  • The $76.6 billion headline is the gross Total Funds amount printed in H.B. 974 and includes $5.8 billion of intra-state government transfers, so it should not be read as consolidated state spending.
  • The governor signed H.B. 974 with line-item vetoes and directed agencies to withhold more than $300 million in allotments. Because the signed bill does not publish a single restated net total after those actions, FactVote labels and groups the on-face bill amount rather than inventing one.
  • Georgia's local property and sales taxes are outside the audited statewide tax-source denominator; lottery proceeds and provider fees are also presented separately from taxes in the ACFR.
Last verified August 28, 2026 · Review by July 31, 2027 · Georgia figures refresh annually.

Taxes and the economy

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

Taxes and economy

$77,353

Median household income

2020–2024 estimate

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

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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.

Housing and property costs

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

Housing

$1,393/month

Median gross rent

2020–2024 estimate

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

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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.

Public safety and criminal justice

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

Public safety and justice

328 per 100,000

Reported violent-crime rate

2024

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

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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.

Public safety and justice

1,708.3 per 100,000

Reported property-crime rate

2024

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

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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.

Public safety and justice

50,261

People in Georgia's prison system

December 31, 2025

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

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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.

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

14.0%

People under 65 without health insurance

2024 ACS annual estimate

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

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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.

Education

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

Education

89.2%

Adults with at least a high school diploma

2020–2024 estimate

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.

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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.

Environment and energy

Clean water, conservation, climate, and energy production.

Environment

12.5%

Electricity generated from renewable resources

2024

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

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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.

Environment

$3.86/gal

Lower Atlantic regular gasoline price

Week of September 7, 2026

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$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.

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Georgia and U.S. context

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: U.S. Gasoline and Diesel Retail Prices

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.

Gun policy and public safety

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

Gun policy

1,985

Firearm deaths

2024 final data

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

Georgia17.6 per 100,000
United States13.1 per 100,000

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

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Georgia and U.S. context

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: Firearm Mortality

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.

Social Security, Medicare, and retirement

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

Retirement security

2,081,735

Georgians receiving Social Security benefits

December 2025

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

Georgia18.4%
United States20.1%

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

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Georgia and U.S. context

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: OASDI beneficiaries as a percentage of population, December 2025

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.

Immigration and border policy

Border enforcement, legal immigration, and pathways to citizenship.

Immigration

11.2%

Residents who are foreign-born

2020–2024 estimate

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

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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.

Voting, democracy, and government accountability

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

Democracy and accountability

73.83%

Active registered-voter turnout

November 5, 2024 general election

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

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Latest official turnout comparison

General: Nov. 5, 2024 · Primary: May 19, 2026
General election turnout
73.83%
Primary election turnoutMay 19, 2026 general primary
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: May 19, 2026 General Primary — Official Results Review by January 31, 2027

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.

Abortion and reproductive rights

Access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.

Reproductive rights

7,130

Abortions reported by Georgia providers

2025 reporting year

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.

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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.

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