Wilkinson County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level less than 2 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Low Potential
Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2010 was 39.4. This is worse than average.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 1.39. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 13.3 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 23.7. This is about average. Closest monitor was 19.3 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM2.5) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 12.4. This is worse than average. There were 12 monitors within city limits.
Lead (Pb) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 0.00478. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 13.3 miles away from the city center.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 23.1%
(16.9% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 27.4% for Black residents, 0.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 75.0% for American Indian residents, 0.0% for other race residents, 95.2% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
| This city: | 2.7 people | | Georgia: | 2.5 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This city: | 69.7% | | Whole state: | 70.2% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This city: | 4.7% | | Whole state: | 4.8% |
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Gordon, GA
Gordon compared to Georgia state average:
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Black race population percentage above state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Renting percentage below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Banks with branches in Gordon (2011 data):
- Morris Bank: The Gordon Bank Branch at 280 Milledgeville Highway, branch established on 1994/04/29. Info updated 2010/10/25: Bank assets: $336.7 mil, Deposits: $281.8 mil, headquarters in Dublin, GA, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 3 total offices, Holding Company: Morris State Bancshares, Inc.
Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Wilkinson County Georgia:
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Religion statistics for Gordon (based on Wilkinson County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 37.69%
| Here |  | 37.7% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Southern Baptist Convention | United Methodist Church | Churches of Christ | Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | Other |
| Adherents | 71.0% | 23.2% | 1.9% | 1.6% | 2.2% |
| Congregations | 46.9% | 28.1% | 6.3% | 3.1% | 15.6% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 2 | Wilkinson County: | 1.99 / 10,000 pop. | | Georgia: | 1.91 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 1 | Wilkinson County: | 0.99 / 10,000 pop. | | Georgia: | 0.86 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 8 | Here: | 7.95 / 10,000 pop. | | Georgia: | 5.12 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 4 | Here: | 3.98 / 10,000 pop. | | Georgia: | 7.41 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | Wilkinson County: | 12.5% | | State: | 10.4% |
Adult obesity rate: | Wilkinson County: | 31.4% | | State: | 27.8% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate:
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
2 | $6,859 | $41,154 | 0 | $0 |
| Judicial and Legal |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $443 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
7 | $22,140 | $37,954 | 2 | $1,328 |
| Police - Other |
4 | $8,635 | $25,905 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
3 | $5,756 | $23,024 | 0 | $0 |
| Sewerage |
3 | $7,085 | $28,340 | 0 | $0 |
| Parks and Recreation |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $996 |
| Local Libraries |
2 | $3,321 | $19,926 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
21 | $53,796 | $30,741 | 4 | $2,767 |
Gordon government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Sewerage: $137,000 ($68.06)
Solid Waste Management: $47,000 ($23.35)
All Other: $16,000 ($7.95)
- Construction - Parks & Recreation: $30,000 ($14.90)
Water Utilities: $8,000 ($3.97)
Sewerage: $6,000 ($2.98)
Regular Highways: $1,000 ($0.50)
- Current Operations - Police Protection: $431,000 ($214.11)
Regular Highways: $233,000 ($115.75)
Water Utilities: $149,000 ($74.02)
Financial Administration: $128,000 ($63.59)
Solid Waste Management: $127,000 ($63.09)
Sewerage: $99,000 ($49.18)
Central Staff Services: $63,000 ($31.30)
Libraries: $45,000 ($22.35)
Housing & Community Development: $18,000 ($8.94)
Parks & Recreation: $15,000 ($7.45)
Fire Protection: $14,000 ($6.95)
Judicial and Legal Services: $10,000 ($4.97)
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $4,000 ($1.99)
Health Services - Other: $2,000 ($0.99)
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - General: $15,000 ($7.45)
Solid Waste Management: $12,000 ($5.96)
- Local Intergovernmental - General Support: $495,000 ($245.90)
All Other: $244,000 ($121.21)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $1,539,000 ($764.53)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Water Utilities: $1,485,000 ($737.70)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Water Utilities: $54,000 ($26.83)
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $189,000 ($93.89)
General Revenue, NEC: $56,000 ($27.82)
- Other Capital Outlay - Regular Highways: $36,000 ($17.88)
Police Protection: $23,000 ($11.43)
Libraries: $16,000 ($7.95)
Parks & Recreation: $6,000 ($2.98)
Fire Protection: $3,000 ($1.49)
Health - Other: $3,000 ($1.49)
Financial Administration: $2,000 ($0.99)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $3,731,000 ($1853.45)
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $206,000 ($102.33)
- Sinking Fund - Cash & Deposits: $120,000 ($59.61)
- Tax - Public Utilities: $255,000 ($126.68)
Property: $154,000 ($76.50)
Other Selective Sales: $107,000 ($53.15)
Alcoholic Beverage Sales: $33,000 ($16.39)
NEC: $20,000 ($9.94)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $612,000 ($304.02)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $61,000 ($30.30)
5.20% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($25,330 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 5.20% | | Georgia average: | 10.98% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.72% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($29,656 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.72% | | Georgia average: | 9.55% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Gordon:
- WXJO (1120 AM; daytime; 10 kW; GORDON, GA; Owner: ROBERTS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WMAC (940 AM; 50 kW; MACON, GA; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WNNG (1350 AM; 15 kW; WARNER ROBINS, GA; Owner: CHASE BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WLCG (1280 AM; 5 kW; MACON, GA)
- WGST (640 AM; 50 kW; ATLANTA, GA; Owner: CITICASTERS LICENSES, L.P.)
- WSB (750 AM; 50 kW; ATLANTA, GA; Owner: CXR HOLDINGS, INC.)
- WBML (900 AM; 2 kW; MACON, GA; Owner: WBML, INC.)
- WCNN (680 AM; 50 kW; NORTH ATLANTA, GA; Owner: DICKEY BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- WGUN (1010 AM; 50 kW; ATLANTA, GA; Owner: WGUN, INC.)
- WPGA (980 AM; 5 kW; PERRY, GA; Owner: RADIO PERRY, INC.)
- WAOK (1380 AM; 50 kW; ATLANTA, GA; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WQXI (790 AM; 28 kW; ATLANTA, GA; Owner: JEFFERSON-PILOT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF GEORGIA)
- WMLB (1160 AM; 50 kW; EAST POINT, GA; Owner: ATLANTA AREA BROADCASTING, INC.)
Strongest FM radio stations in Gordon:
- WFXM (107.1 FM; GORDON, GA; Owner: ROBERTS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WPEZ (93.7 FM; JEFFERSONVILLE, GA; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WGUR (88.9 FM; MILLEDGEVILLE, GA; Owner: GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WVKX (103.7 FM; IRWINTON, GA; Owner: WILKINSON BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WAYS (105.5 FM; MACON, GA; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WDEN-FM (99.1 FM; MACON, GA; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WPWB (90.5 FM; BYRON, GA; Owner: AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INST., INC.)
- WBKG (88.9 FM; MACON, GA; Owner: AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION)
- WDCO-FM (89.7 FM; COCHRAN, GA; Owner: GEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION)
- WKZR (102.3 FM; MILLEDGEVILLE, GA; Owner: WMVG, INC.)
- WLRR (100.7 FM; MILLEDGEVILLE, GA; Owner: PRESTON W. SMALL)
- WYNF (96.5 FM; GRAY, GA; Owner: CLEVELAND RADIO LICENSES, LLC)
- WQBZ (106.3 FM; FORT VALLEY, GA; Owner: CLEVELAND RADIO LICENSES, LLC)
- WMKS (92.3 FM; MACON, GA; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WQMJ (100.1 FM; FORSYTH, GA; Owner: ROBERTS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- W201BN (88.1 FM; MILLEDGEVILLE, GA; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC.)
- WMGZ (97.7 FM; EATONTON, GA; Owner: MIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WRBV (101.7 FM; WARNER ROBINS, GA; Owner: CLEVELAND RADIO LICENSES, LLC)
- W282AE (104.3 FM; MACON, GA; Owner: BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.)
- W203BH (88.5 FM; MACON, GA; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Gordon:
- WPGA-TV (Channel 58; PERRY, GA; Owner: RADIO PERRY, INC.)
- WMGT-TV (Channel 41; MACON, GA; Owner: MORRIS NETWORK, INC.)
- WMAZ-TV (Channel 13; MACON, GA; Owner: GANNETT GEORGIA, L.P.)
- WGXA (Channel 24; MACON, GA; Owner: PIEDMONT TELEVISION OF MACON LICENSE LLC)
- WGNM (Channel 64; MACON, GA; Owner: GOOD NEWS TELEVISION)
- WDMA-LP (Channel 32; MACON, GA; Owner: WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC.)
- WDCO-TV (Channel 29; COCHRAN, GA; Owner: GEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION)
Fatal road traffic accident statistics for 1975 - 2009 (per 100,000 population)
Gordon, Georgia:
- Fatal accident count: 14
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 21
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 5
- Fatalities: 18
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 59
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 0
Georgia average:
- Fatal accident count: 90
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 140
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 25
- Fatalities: 98
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 235
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 12
See more detailed statistics of Gordon fatal car crashes and road traffic accidents for 1975 - 2009 here
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 5
Total length: 27 meters (89ft)
Total costs: $1,848,000
Total average daily traffic: 11,710
Total average daily truck traffic: 4
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 1 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers in Gordon)
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 60 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers)
FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers: 2 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers in Gordon, GA)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 7 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers)
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 3 - GORDON, 2.5 Miles South Of (Lat: 32.847917 Lon: -83.339306), Overall height: 81.7 m, Call Sign: KJL24, Licensee ID: L00020592
Assigned Frequencies: 6093.45 MHz, 6123.10 MHz, 6123.10 MHz, 6093.50 MHz Grant Date: 02/15/2000, Expiration Date: 02/01/2010, Cancellation Date: 06/05/2001
Registrant: At&t Communications Of The Southern States, Inc., 1200 Peachtree St, 05w30, Atlanta, GA 30309, Phone: (404) 810-4020, Fax: (404) 810-7349, Email:
- STATION, Hwy 18 Adj To R/R Tracks In (Lat: 32.881500 Lon: -83.334528), Overall height: 71.6 m, Call Sign: KRG68
Assigned Frequencies: 6795.00 MHz, 6805.00 MHz Grant Date: 06/27/2008, Expiration Date: 07/15/2018
Registrant: Central Of Georgia Railway Company, 1200 Peachtree St. Ne - Box 123, Atlanta, GA 30309, Phone: (404) 529-1493, Fax: (404) 527-2914, Email:
- Hwy 57 805 Mi W Gordon (Lat: 32.849833 Lon: -83.477111), Overall height: 9.1 m, Call Sign: WHY749, Licensee ID: L01426737
Assigned Frequencies: 948.000 MHz Grant Date: 08/08/1984, Expiration Date: 04/01/2012
Registrant: Wfxm-Fm Radio, LLC, 6174 Highway 57, Macon, GA 31217
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 12 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Gordon)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 5 - Aircraft: ALMAZON EDWARD F GLASAIR (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 101GE , Serial Number: 2389, Year manufactured: 2000, Airworthiness Date: 09/28/2000
Registrant (Individual): Edward F Almazon, 158 Forest Valley Dr, Gordon, GA 31031 - Aircraft: ALMAZON EDWARD F VANS R-V-4 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 1035T , Serial Number: 4412, Year manufactured: 2005, Airworthiness Date: 10/03/2005
Registrant (Individual): Edward F Almazon, 158 Forest Valley Dr, Gordon, GA 31031 - Aircraft: CESSNA 152 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 HP) (4 Cycle)
N-Number: 131CF , Serial Number: 15282248, Year manufactured: 1978, Airworthiness Date: 08/28/1978
Registrant (Individual): Christopher L Burke, 9707 Ga Highway 57, Gordon, GA 31031 - Aircraft: CESSNA 170B (Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 105 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 170AK , Serial Number: 25431, Year manufactured: 1953, Airworthiness Date: 11/27/1955
Registrant (Individual): Keith A Getz, 2155 Ga Highway 18 E, Gordon, GA 31031 - Aircraft: PIPER J3C-65 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 67 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 2045M , Serial Number: 20814, Year manufactured: 1946
Registrant (Individual): Dean Hunsinger, 106 Holly Dr, Gordon, GA 31031
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
Businesses in Gordon, GA
- Ace Hardware: 1
- H&R Block: 1
- #48 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of males working in industry: Nonmetallic mineral products"
- #50 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of females working in industry: Data processing and other information services"
- #75 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of females working in industry: Mining"
- #95 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of males working in industry: Mining"
- #92 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Annual air pollution readings in 2005 (µg/m3)"
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