Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Virginia instead of Georgia, you would:

Economy

be 71.9% less likely to be unemployed

In Georgia, 12.1% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Virginia, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.

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make 7.1 times more money

Georgia has a GDP per capita of $9,692 as of 2025, while in Virginia, the GDP per capita is $69,111 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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