Funeral services · Metro area · Georgia
Funeral homes in the Columbus, GA-AL metro area
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for funeral homes in the Columbus, GA-AL metro area, set against other metro areas and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 35 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #280 of 377 scored metro areas
#8 of 14 scored metro areas based in Georgia
- Listings
- 28
- 1 chain location (4%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $16.1M
- On funerals · $126 a household
- Spending per listing
- $574K
- 15% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 2.2
- 5% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 324,830
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 28 funeral homes in the Columbus metro area. One of them (4%) is a chain location, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 2.2 for every 10,000 households, 5% above the U.S. rate of 2.1.
At $126 per household (12% below the U.S. average), households in the Columbus metro area spend about $16.1M a year on funerals. That is about $574K of household spending for each home on map listings, 15% below the U.S. figure of $679K.
Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Columbus metro area in 2023. That is one for every 9,809 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Columbus metro area declined 1.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Columbus metro area scores 35 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for funeral homes, ranking #280 of 377 scored metro areas and #8 of 14 scored metro areas based in Georgia.
How the Columbus metro area compares
The same measures for Georgia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Columbus metro area | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $574K | $549K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 9,809 | 9,218 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +0.2% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $126 | $128 | $143 |
| Median household income | $59,336 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 35 | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13
- Employees, 2023
- 118
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 281 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 24The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Columbus metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Columbus metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 324,830−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 127,512
- Median age
- 37.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 58%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 2,786 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 117
- Median household income
- $59,336+24.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $81,434
- Median home value
- $197,300
- Jobs located here
- 110,573
- Daytime population
- 319,730Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Georgia market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Georgia for funeral homes, numbered among those based in Georgia (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Columbus metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gainesville, GA | 75 | 13 | 1.8 | $859K | +11.4% | #47 of 377 |
| 2Savannah, GA | 67 | 24 | 1.5 | $847K | +8.1% | #84 of 377 |
| 3Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 64 | 318 | 1.4 | $862K | +5.9% | #100 of 377 |
| 4Brunswick-St. Simons, GA | 63 | 11 | 2.3 | $712K | +4.4% | #107 of 377 |
| Chattanooga, TN-GA | 60 | 47 | 2.0 | $720K | +5.3% | #122 of 377 |
| 5Athens-Clarke County, GA | 58 | 15 | 1.7 | $669K | +3.9% | #133 of 377 |
| 6Warner Robins, GA | 49 | 17 | 2.3 | $531K | +8.2% | #187 of 377 |
| 7Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | 43 | 62 | 2.7 | $538K | +4.7% | #229 of 377 |
| 8Columbus, GA-AL | 35 | 28 | 2.2 | $574K | −1.3% | #280 of 377 |
| 9Dalton, GA | 34 | 13 | 2.5 | $552K | +3.5% | #285 of 377 |
Other business types in the Columbus metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Auto
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Columbus, GA-AL metro area?
There are 28 funeral homes on map listings in the Columbus metro area as of September 2026. One of them (4%) is a chain location. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Columbus, GA-AL metro area spend on funerals?
About $16.1M a year, or $126 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $574K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 127,512 households in the Columbus metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Columbus, GA-AL metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Columbus metro area has 2.2 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 5% above the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $574K, 15% below the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Columbus metro area would have about 24, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 9,809 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Columbus, GA-AL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Columbus metro area at 324,830 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 127,512 households. Median household income in the Columbus metro area is $59,336, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 24.7%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Columbus metro area scores 35 for funeral homes (lower middle), #280 of 377 scored metro areas.
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