Atlanta Georgia Statistics and Growth  

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The Southeast is the fastest growing region in the country and Atlanta leads the pack as one of the best all-around places to live and do business America. Atlanta is also proud of the fact that it hosts the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation; maybe because the cost of doing business in Atlanta is the absolute lowest in the nation.

Competitive labor costs combined with extremely favorable state-tax incentives contributed to Atlanta’s ranking as the least costly place to do business among 23 major U.S. cities and locations with populations in excess of 1.5 million. Atlanta had a cost index of 96.4%, representing business costs 3.5% below the U.S. national average.

There are 28 counties that form metropolitan Atlanta. These counties should experience 41,000 new jobs or approximately 1.8 percent job growth rate next year. In spite of a recent string of bankruptcy and buyout headlines involving some of the state’s premier and prestigious companies, such as Scientific-Atlanta Delta Air Lines, Georgia-Pacific, the city's prospects are looking fairly good in as much as there is a strong migration and newly-credible civic leadership. There doesn’t seem to be anything on the economic horizon, however, that is big enough to overcome the sluggishness of several of the city’s large employers. It seems that the Atlanta’s economy will continue to grow, however, the city's growth rate will probably tend to follow the rest of the nationwide trend of sluggishness for the current foreseeable future."

Atlanta has numerous higher-level colleges and research universities that are on the cutting edge of education in America. You’ll find that metro Atlanta is a national leader in higher education, regularly ranking within the top-ten of metro areas containing influential institutions of higher education activity. The Atlanta region sustains 45 accredited degree-granting colleges and universities providing more than 400 fields of study and serving almost 200,000 students. Colleges and universities are key resources providing growth and a sustainable pool of job applicants for Atlanta's regional economy.

One additional factor that is Atlanta Georgia can boast that it is home of the world’s busiest airport,

Livability you ask? Well how nice that Atlanta has the prestigious honor provided by national magazine as being voted the best place to live, work and play in the country.

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