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Sparks town, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Sparks town is a Census town of 2,056 people across 3.97 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $39,191, 43.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Sparks
What Sparks is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.97 sq mi
- Water area0.17 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land518 plus or minus 122
- County holding the largest share of its areaCook County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sparks
How many people live in Sparks
- Population2,056 plus or minus 484
- Median age36.2 plus or minus 13.2
- Population under 18634 plus or minus 234
- Share under 1830.8 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Population 65 and over204 plus or minus 74
- Share 65 and over9.9 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Households651 plus or minus 169
- Family households453 plus or minus 140
- Share of households that are families69.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sparks
Income and work in Sparks
- Median household income$39,191 plus or minus $16,441
- Per capita income$17,348 plus or minus $5,077
- Civilian labor force692 plus or minus 218
- Employed672 plus or minus 216
- Unemployed20 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate2.9 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over1,256 plus or minus 355
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher77.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.3 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sparks
Housing in Sparks
- Housing units882 plus or minus 195
- Occupied units651 plus or minus 169
- Vacant units231 plus or minus 89
- Vacancy rate26.2 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Owner occupied286 plus or minus 106
- Renter occupied365 plus or minus 132
- Ownership rate43.9 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$86,300 plus or minus $22,003
- Median gross rent, monthly$929
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.4 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Single family units409 plus or minus 117
- Share single family46.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more14 plus or minus 24
- Share in buildings of two or more1.6 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Mobile homes459 plus or minus 136
- Median year structure built1980
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sparks
How Sparks gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute603 plus or minus 183
- Commuting under 15 minutes307 plus or minus 111
- Share commuting under 15 minutes50.9 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more94 plus or minus 63
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more15.6 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Drove alone87.1 percent
- Carpooled1.9 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.3 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Worked from home6.2 percent plus or minus 6.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sparks
Flood risk in Sparks
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number130061
- Currently effective map date11/02/23
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Cook County, not Sparks
Cook County context, not Sparks figures
These are Cook County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sparks measurements.
- Establishments in Cook County339
- Employment at those establishments, Cook County3,580
- Covered employment, Cook County4,662
- Average annual pay, Cook County$43,348
- Average weekly wage, Cook County$834
- Housing units permitted, Cook County47
- Of those, single family, Cook County47
- County product, 2024, Cook County$535,845,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cook County-0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cook County$35,606
Every figure in this section is published for Cook County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sparks. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Sparks questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sparks, Georgia?
2,056, in 651 households. Sparks town covers 3.97 square miles of land, which is 518 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sparks in?
Cook County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Sparks?
$39,191. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $86,300. Median gross rent is $929 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Sparks in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sparks appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130061, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Sparks figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cook County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Sparks.
Is zoning published for Sparks?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.