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Medical and dental practices in Echols County, GA
How Echols County, GA compares with other counties and the U.S. for medical and dental practices: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1.1M
- On medical and dental services · $1,004 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.1M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.7
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 3,685
- −0.8% since 2020
See the medical and dental practices around any address in Echols County
The site report maps the medical and dental practices on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Echols County. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 medical or dental practice in Echols County. That is 8.7 per 10,000 households.
At $1,004 per household (22% below the U.S. average), households in Echols County spend about $1.1M a year on medical and dental services. That is about $1.1M of household spending for each practice on map listings.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in Echols County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates show Echols County declined 0.8% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Echols County compares
The same measures for Georgia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the medical and dental practices 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 | Echols County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.7 | 83.6 | 84.5 |
| Spending per listing | $1.1M | $138K | $152K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 267 | 270 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +4.8% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.8% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,004 | $1,150 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $59,489 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 35 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 8The 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 offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in Echols County, 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 Echols County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 3,685−0.8% since 2020
- Households
- 1,145
- Median age
- 31.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 420 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 9
- Median household income
- $59,489
- Average household income
- $80,436
- Median home value
- $124,100
- Jobs located here
- 552
- Daytime population
- 2,931Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Echols County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the medical and dental practices on map listings by name and distance.
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Top counties in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Harris County, GA | 87 | 19 | 14.6 | $866K | +6.8% | #13 of 2,394 |
| 2Oglethorpe County, GA | 86 | 6 | 11.1 | $983K | +10.4% | #23 of 2,394 |
| 3Madison County, GA | 84 | 11 | 9.8 | $1M | +8.8% | #40 of 2,394 |
| 4Pike County, GA | 84 | 14 | 20.8 | $561K | +10.5% | #44 of 2,394 |
| 5Banks County, GA | 82 | 10 | 14.6 | $729K | +17.3% | #70 of 2,394 |
| 6Jasper County, GA | 82 | 13 | 21.8 | $475K | +20.2% | #75 of 2,394 |
| 7Long County, GA | 80 | 6 | 9.7 | $1M | +32.6% | #93 of 2,394 |
| 8Pierce County, GA | 77 | 12 | 15.8 | $664K | +5.1% | #136 of 2,394 |
| 9Walker County, GA | 77 | 47 | 17.8 | $562K | +3.7% | #139 of 2,394 |
| 10Jones County, GA | 76 | 19 | 17.6 | $618K | +2.8% | #164 of 2,394 |
| Echols County, GA | Not scored | 1 | 8.7 | $1.1M | −0.8% |
Other business types in Echols County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many medical and dental practices are in Echols County, GA?
There is 1 medical or dental practice on map listings in Echols County as of September 2026. The listings count every outpatient clinic and practice, and urgent care. No official count is published for offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in Echols County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Echols County, GA spend on medical and dental services?
About $1.1M a year, or $1,004 per household. That is 22% below the U.S. average (an index of 78, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 medical or dental practice on map listings, it comes to $1.1M per practice. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,145 households in Echols County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Echols County, GA compare with the U.S. for medical and dental practices?
Echols County has 1 medical or dental practice on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of medical and dental practices to household spending, Echols County would have about 8, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Echols County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Echols County at 3,685 people in 2025, down 0.8% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 1,145 households. Median household income in Echols County is $59,489, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Echols County. It maps the medical and dental practices on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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