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Floyd County, Georgia

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Cost of living and taxes

Effective property tax rate

0.91%

Georgia county average: 0.79%

Median property tax bill

$2,367

On a median home of $261,500

This is the rate actually paid on the median home in Floyd County — the median bill divided by the median value. It is not the headline millage, and it does not include any senior or homestead exemption you may qualify for.

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Source: county median property tax and median home value, tax year 2026, loaded 2026.

Health care

Nearest emergency room

ATRIUM HEALTH FLOYD POLK MEDICAL CENTER

19 miles

Not rated by CMS

Straight-line distance from the county’s population centre. Road travel is longer.

Nearest major teaching hospital

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MIDTOWN

57 miles

Major medical-school affiliation on the Medicare Provider of Services file — where complex care and specialist referrals usually end up.

Primary-care doctors per 100,000 people

141.0

Georgia county median: 35.5 per 100,000

Specialists: 217.0 per 100,000

Hospital beds: 5.76 per 1,000

Part of this county is a primary-care shortage area

HRSA designates part of this county — a service area or a specific population group — a Health Professional Shortage Area for primary care. Whether it affects you depends on where in the county you land.

Sources: HRSA Area Health Resources File 2024–25 (physicians, beds, shortage areas); CMS Hospital General Information and Provider of Services file, 2026 release.

Physicians are counted where they practise, not where patients live, so a county next to a medical hub can look thinner than it is — which is why we lead with distance to the nearest hospital.

Climate

Average January low

32°F

Average July high

90°F

Climate burden: mild

4,781 heating and cooling degree days a year.

Source: NOAA nClimDiv county climate normals, 1991–2020 (2020 release).

Arts and culture

Places you can name in Floyd County

  • Rome Little TheatrePerforming arts
  • Cave Spring Welcome Center & MuseumMuseum
  • Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge HomeMuseum
  • Historic Cherokee Vann CabinMuseum
  • House of DreamsMuseum
  • Museum Of FlightMuseum

Museums and performing-arts venues in the county

17

Georgia county median: 3

In and around, within about an hour

74

Includes venues in neighbouring counties within 60 miles of this county’s population centre — not just the county itself.

Places on the National Register of Historic Places

23

Georgia county median: 4

Active arts and museum nonprofits

7

Combined annual revenue: $1.2 million

Businesses on the Census County Business Patterns file

Theatre companies
Fewer than 3 (withheld)
Event and music promoters
Fewer than 3 (withheld)
Museums
Fewer than 3 (withheld)
Historic sites
Fewer than 3 (withheld)

The Census withholds any count below three to protect individual businesses, so “fewer than 3” means exactly that — it does not mean none.

Sources: Overture Maps Foundation places (venue names and locations, CDLA-Permissive-2.0); National Park Service National Register of Historic Places; National Center for Charitable Statistics Business Master File at the Urban Institute (ODC-BY 1.0); Census County Business Patterns 2023.

These are counts of what exists, not a rating of how good it is. A county with one much-loved theatre can be a better fit than one with a dozen you would never visit.

Family proximity

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Nearest commercial airport

Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) (CHA) is 53 miles away with 10 nonstop destinations.

Sources: OurAirports (airport names and locations, public domain); Bureau of Transportation Statistics On-Time Performance, 2026 (nonstop destinations flown by reporting carriers in the most recent month). Distances are great-circle from the county centre point.

Every figure above is named by source and vintage. See our data & methodology for the agency, licence and limits behind each dimension.