The scoop on the 5th

The 5th Congressional District includes downtown Atlanta and much of central Fulton and DeKalb counties and the northern third of Clayton. Or, to put it in the language that Atlantans best understand: The 5th Congressional District covers the majority of the land inside the Perimeter, as well as some of the suburban communities to the south and west.

It includes Buckhead and Bankhead, the Ritz-Carlton and the town of Rex, Lenox Square and Lakewood Heights — and a lot of places in between.

Here’s a quick data snapshot of Rep. John Lewis’ district:

Almost 750,000 people live there, according to the most recent estimates from the Census Bureau. The population is about 58 percent African-American, about one-third white and about 5 percent Asian.

The median household income is about $48,000 — slightly higher than Georgia’s median, but below the national median of $54,000.

About 1 in 6 families in the district lived in poverty in the previous year. The same data set estimated the national rate to be about 1 family in 9.

The unemployment rate in the district was about 8.2 percent when the Census Bureau released its estimates last year for the American Community Survey’s 2015 one-year measurement. The same data set estimated the national unemployment rate at 6.3 percent, and the Georgia state rate at 7.1 percent. The national unemployment rate as of December, published by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, was 4.7 percent.

Nearly nine out of 10 residents of the Fifth District were high school graduates or had education beyond high school, and about four out of 10 residents had at least a bachelor’s degree, according to Census estimates.

The largest single chunk of employed residents in Lewis’ district, about half of the civilian work force, worked in a field grouped by the Census as “management, business, science, and arts occupations.” The district includes Atlanta’s downtown and main business district, and includes the headquarters of the Coca-Cola Co. in Midtown and Delta Air Lines near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. It also covers the campuses of Georgia Tech and Emory University as well as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many of the city’s major cultural and arts institutions.

The largest single sector employing people in the 5th District is construction (12 percent), followed by “management and remediation services” (11.9 percent) and “management of companies and enterprises” (11.8 percent).

Atlanta landed at No. 14 in the nation, when compared to the largest cities, for its rate of violent crime when the Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics last year that applied to 2015.