Interesting Facts about Sandy Springs
from the Sandy Springs Guidebook (unless otherwise noted):
- Sandy Springs is the second-largest city in metro Atlanta.
- A total of 18,276,826 square feet of office space already exists in the City.
- Five Fortune 500 headquarters (UPS, Newell Rubbermaid, Cox Communications, Beazer Homes, and Mirant) are located within our city limits.
- Sandy Springs has the largest concentration of major health care facilities in metro Atlanta.
- The City is served by five elementary schools, two public middle schools, and two public high schools. Residents also have easy access to 41 private schools.
- Three MARTA rail stations within the city offer a direct route to the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, and most areas of metro Atlanta are accessible within a short drive.
- 98,000 residents call Sandy Springs home.
- Sandy Springs is the tenth largest city in Georgia.
- Sandy Springs is a 37 square mile area. It has:
- 355 miles of streets and roads.
- 20 bridges
- 22,000 taxable parcels.
- Four major hospitals.
- Most desirable commercial/office properties in the nation—nearly $1.5 billion worth of commercial real estate holdings.
- 60% of Sandy Springs residents have college degrees and consider themselves very involved citizens.
- There are 20 miles of the Chattahoochee River shoreline in Sandy Springs, part of which is in the National Park Service.
- Sandy Springs’ Citizen Response Center answered 69,000 calls in one year.
- The June 21, 2005 referendum for City hood passed 94 percent to 6 percent.
- Sandy Springs, in partnership with CH2M HILL OMI, was the 2006 recipient of the Annual Public-Private Partnership Award from the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
- The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) awarded the City of Sandy Springs Web site a Bronze Flame Award at the annual 2006 Golden Flame Award ceremony.
- The median household income in Sandy Springs is $77,800.
- Future job growth in Sandy Springs is more than 14 percent, higher than the national average.
- Two of the most traveled arteries in Atlanta cross Sandy Springs: I-285 and Georgia 400.
- Nearly 60 percent of Sandy Springs's population consider themselves religious, 10 percent over the national average.