Politics & Government

Family Households Up in Smyrna, Vinings becoming less rental

Women outnumber men in both communities.

More than 2,600 family households made the city of Smyrna their home over the past decade. At the same time, Vinings’ residential housing market has become slightly less rental-based and more homeowner-based.

These are some of the findings of a Patch analysis of data newly released from the U.S. Census Bureau for the city of Smyrna and the Vinings community. Though Vinings is not incorporated, it is a Census-Designated Place, which means the Census Bureau gathers data on the area.

Family households in Smyrna grew from 9,499 a decade ago to 12,104 in 2010. Family households now represent 52.6 percent of the city’s total of 23,002 households. The Census defines family households as “one or more people related to the householder by birth, marriage or adoption.”

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Family sizes also increased in Smyrna over the last decade. In 2000, the average family had 2.92 people, a figure that grew to 3.01 in the latest Census.

In the 2010 census, Vinings had a total of 6,259 housing units. Of those, 68.3 percent were rentals, compared to 31.7 percent occupied by home owners. A decade ago, there were 5,670 housing units, with 75.2 percent of them rentals and 24.8 percent owner-occupied.

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 More Smyrna fact facts from the 2010 Census:

§  Smyrna’s population grew a little older. The median age was 32 a decade ago and crept up to 33.7 in the latest Census. (The median is the point at which half of the population is older and half in younger.)

§  More women than men live in Smyrna, which was also the case ten years ago. In 2010, the Census counted 26,675 women in Smyrna, representing 52 percent of the population. A decade ago, there were 20,989 women and they were 51.2 percent of the population.

§  Like other metro Atlanta areas, Smyrna has a higher housing vacancy rate than in 2000. Smyrna’s total housing units grew from 19,633 to 25,745 over the past decade. At the same time, vacancy rates rose from 6.4 percent to 10.7 percent. (The Census defines housing units as single family houses, apartments, mobile homes and even a single room occupied as separate living quarters.)

§  More than 10,000 people moved into the city of Smyrna over the past decade, a jump of 25 percent. Smyrna’s population is 51,271, compared to 40,999 ten years ago.

§  There were 27, 593 whites and 16,204 African-Americans counted in the 2010 Census. More than 7,000 people identified themselves as Latino, with residents of Asian heritage coming in next, at 2,500.

More Vinings fast facts:

§  The latest Census put the occupancy rate in Vinings at 86.5 percent, compared to 92.2 percent in a decade ago.

§  The total population in Vinings grew by 57 people over the last decade, from 9,677 to 9,734.

§  Women continue to outnumber men in Vinings. Men were 46.8 percent of the population in 2010, compared 48.1 percent a decade ago. Women were 53.2 percent of the population in the latest Census, compared to 51.9 percent ten years ago.


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