Andre Dickens (Democratic) has been Mayor of Atlanta since 3 Jan 2022. The unemployment rate stood at 3.7% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 0.7 percentage points higher than when Andre Dickens took office in January 2022; Georgia's moved 0.0 percentage points over the same months. Atlanta ranks 13th of 71 cities on population growth; on GDP per person it is 67th of 73. The violent crime rate moved −89 per 100,000 in Atlanta against −60 per 100,000 for Georgia. Over Keisha Lance Bottoms's tenure, 2018 to 2022, the unemployment rate moved −1.4 percentage points. Since day zero typical rent rose 1.8% a year, 8.7% in all.
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