Running head: METRO ATLANTA 1
SOWK 6361 Week 4 Assignment
Racquel Walsh
Walden University
METRO ATLANTA 2
Part I: Understanding Your Community
The community that I selected for this assignment is the Metro Atlanta community of
Georgia. Atlanta is the capital of Georgia. As of 2020, Atlanta has a population of 478,200
(altantaregional.org). In the past 20 years, Atlanta has experienced significant political,
economic, and social changes. Atlanta’s community population has shown an inclining trajectory
since 2000 since the Atlanta economy’s surge from the Great Recession. Atlanta’s population of
478,200 had 63,600 population increase since 2019 (atlantaregional.org).
The change in Atlanta’s population within the past 20 years has primarily been
influenced by its economy. Current estimates predict that the population size will add 2.9 million
people by 2050 (atlantaregional.org). A social change in the Metro Atlanta community that
should be noted is the racial makeup. In 2000 the racial makeup of Metro Atlanta was 61.55%
Black, 38.4% White, 33.9% White non-Hispanic, 95.52% Asian and Pacific Islander, and 10.2%
Hispanic/Latino. In 2020 the racial makeup of Metro Atlanta changed to 57.4% Black, 33.2%
White, 31.3% White non-Hispanic, 3.9% Asian and Pacific Islander, and 4.48% Hispanic/Latino
(United States Census Bureau 2020). Metro Atlanta’s current population consists of a median
age of 33, 21.6 poverty rate, $65,345 median household income, 256,891 employed residents,
and 68.9% democrats and 27.3 republicans.
The statistics regarding Metro Atlanta’s population over the past 20 years indicates that
the racial composition for Blacks in the Metro Atlanta community decreased by 0.442%. The
