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Sandy Springs city, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Sandy Springs city is a Census city of 107,087 people across 37.71 square miles of land, in Fulton County. Median household income is $104,340, 50.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 52 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $25.6 m.
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Sandy Springs
What Sandy Springs is
- Census place typecity
- Land area37.71 sq mi
- Water area0.89 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,840
- County holding the largest share of its areaFulton 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.
Sandy Springs
How many people live in Sandy Springs
- Population107,087
- Median age36.8
- Population under 1819,715
- Share under 1818.4 percent
- Population 65 and over15,310
- Share 65 and over14.3 percent
- Households51,647
- Family households25,833
- Share of households that are families50.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sandy Springs
Income and work in Sandy Springs
- Median household income$104,340
- Per capita income$83,136
- Civilian labor force66,362
- Employed63,703
- Unemployed2,659 plus or minus 557
- Unemployment rate4.0 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Adults 25 and over80,070
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher69.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree29.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sandy Springs
Housing in Sandy Springs
- Housing units55,203
- Occupied units51,647
- Vacant units3,556
- Vacancy rate6.4 percent
- Owner occupied25,918
- Renter occupied25,729
- Ownership rate50.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$619,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,870
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.5 percent
- Single family units23,950
- Share single family43.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more30,995
- Share in buildings of two or more56.1 percent
- Mobile homes247 plus or minus 153
- Median year structure built1989
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sandy Springs
How Sandy Springs gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute42,786
- Commuting under 15 minutes8,612
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more14,143
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.1 percent
- Drove alone58.7 percent
- Carpooled3.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Public transport2.9 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Worked from home31.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sandy Springs
SBA 7(a) lending to Sandy Springs borrowers
- Approvals52
- Gross approval$25,596,200
- Average approval$492,235
- Median approval$348,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,155,000
- Largest approval$3,509,200
- Jobs supported449
- Jobs per approval8.6
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full7
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.5 percent
- Share to franchises28.8 percent
- Distinct lenders27
- Distinct industries by NAICS34
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sandy Springs
SBA 504 lending to Sandy Springs borrowers
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$22,597,000
- Average approval$1,329,235
- Median approval$1,137,000
- Largest approval$3,960,000
- Jobs supported344
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs5
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sandy Springs
Flood programme status in Sandy Springs
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number130669
- Currently effective map date09/18/13
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.
Fulton County, not Sandy Springs
Fulton County context, not Sandy Springs figures
These are Fulton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sandy Springs measurements.
- Establishments in Fulton County40,949
- Employment at those establishments, Fulton County928,068
- Covered employment, Fulton County948,157
- Average annual pay, Fulton County$100,817
- Average weekly wage, Fulton County$1,939
- Housing units permitted, Fulton County11,577
- Of those, single family, Fulton County2,937
- County product, 2024, Fulton County$243,562,683,000
- County product change over the prior year, Fulton County5.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Fulton County$98,836
Every figure in this section is published for Fulton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sandy Springs. 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.
- 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
Sandy Springs questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sandy Springs, Georgia?
107,087, in 51,647 households. Sandy Springs city covers 37.71 square miles of land, which is 2,840 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sandy Springs in?
Fulton 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 Sandy Springs?
$104,340. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $619,800. Median gross rent is $1,870 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sandy Springs businesses?
52 7(a) approvals totalling $25.6 m, across 27 lenders, median approval $348,000, plus 17 504 approvals worth $22.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sandy Springs, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sandy Springs borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sandy Springs. only 8 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Sandy Springs in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sandy Springs appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130669, 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 Sandy Springs figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Fulton 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 Sandy Springs.
Is zoning published for Sandy Springs?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.