Menlo vs Summerville

A side-by-side comparison of Menlo and Summerville: population, income, housing, and more.

Menlo and Summerville are places in Georgia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Summerville has the higher population (4,406 vs 605 in Menlo). Menlo has the higher median household income ($70,625 vs $31,429 in Summerville). Since 2019, Menlo's population has grown faster (+8.8% vs +2.0%).

Population, income & housing

	Menlo	Summerville
Population	605	4,406
Median age	36.6 yrs	50.4 yrs
Median household income	$70,625	$31,429
Median home value	—	$88,000
Median gross rent	$615	$576
Housing units	299	2,293
Homeownership rate	48.6%	45.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.7%	5.0%
Unemployment rate	5.8%	4.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Menlo	Summerville
Population	556 → 605 (+8.8%)	4,320 → 4,406 (+2.0%)
Median household income	$35,278 → $70,625 (+100.2%)	$21,981 → $31,429 (+43.0%)
Median home value	$70,400 → $75,000 (+6.5%)	$54,900 → $88,000 (+60.3%)
Median gross rent	$485 → $615 (+26.8%)	$507 → $576 (+13.6%)

Menlo

Population

556605

Median household income

$35,278$70,625

Median home value

$70,400$75,000

Median gross rent

$485$615

Summerville

Population

4,3204,406

Median household income

$21,981$31,429

Median home value

$54,900$88,000

Median gross rent

$507$576

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Menlo	Summerville
Under 5	4.1%	7.6%
5 to 17	12.4%	12.4%
18 to 24	11.9%	8.1%
25 to 34	16.0%	8.0%
35 to 44	19.8%	10.1%
45 to 54	16.9%	11.7%
55 to 64	9.8%	19.6%
65 to 74	3.5%	10.7%
75 and over	5.6%	11.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Menlo	Summerville
White (non-Hispanic)	92.1%	72.4%
Black or African American	6.1%	21.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.1%
Asian	0.2%	0.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.5%	3.7%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	2.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Menlo	Summerville
No high school diploma	9.2%	28.4%
High school graduate	35.1%	33.2%
Some college or associate's	30.9%	33.4%
Bachelor's degree	15.9%	2.2%
Graduate or professional degree	8.8%	2.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Menlo	Summerville
Drove alone	79.9%	93.6%
Carpooled	10.2%	2.8%
Public transit	6.9%	0.6%
Walked	2.7%	1.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.3%	1.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Menlo	Summerville
1-unit, detached	80.6%	61.4%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	13.0%	15.6%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	5.6%
20 or more units	0.0%	6.5%
Mobile home & other	6.4%	10.9%

Poverty & households

	Menlo	Summerville
Poverty rate	5.3%	27.7%
Average household size	2.15	2.08
Mean commute (minutes)	31	33
Median year structure built	1956	1974