COMMUNITY ASSETS

Decatur: Walkable.Bikeable

AWARD-WINNING RESTAURANT AND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE

  • Destination for Dining - More than 100 dining options in the city including locally owned and nationally acclaimed.
  • Coffee All Day - Dancing Goats Coffee Bar, B Side, Kavarna, Opo Coffee
  • Beer All Night - Craft breweries: Three Taverns - Brewpub: Twains, Brick Store Pub, 2018 Experts' Choice Award
  • Music and Entertainment Every Night - Eddie’s Attic and Parkers on Ponce, and live music Saturday nights and Wednesday afternoons on the square in May and September + more than 40 city-sponsored events each year

 

RANKED ONE OF BEST NEIGHBORHOODS FOR WALKING AND BIKING

Named Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Cities

  • More than 60 miles of tree-lined sidewalks 
  • Walk Score of 90 – Consistently ranked among the region’s best neighborhoods for walking. Source: Walk Score
  • 9.2 miles of bike paths planned over the next 10 years 
  • Regionally connected

 

SUPERB TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS

More highly educated people can get to Decatur than other job centers in the region

100% of office space is within a five-minute walk of transit

  • Interstate Access: Decatur is located next to the I-75/I-285 connector
  • Grid network of surface streets get people to Decatur and home more quickly than in other markets
  • Three MARTA rail stations, 14 bus lines
  • Emory Cliff Bus – providing direct access from the Decatur to Emory’s campus. 
  • Agnes Scott Shuttle – dedicated shuttle provides a direct connection to campus
  • Easy MARTA train ride to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, world’s busiest

 

HIGH-QUALITY PARKS AND GREEN SPACE

97% of Decatur residents and employees are within a 10-minute walk of a park compared to the national average of 54%.

  • 57 acres of parks and green space
  • and a network of well-lit, tree-lined sidewalks
  • Legacy Park – new 77-acre green space within the City of Decatur.
  • Stone Mountain Park, Piedmont Park – regional parks less than a 15-minute drive

 

RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT

  • $160M+ in completed and funded capital improvements
  • $140M in civic capital improvements since 2005
  • $20M in future budgeted projects 2018-22

 

 

 

Government Scorecard: How Are We Doing?

(percent responding excellent or good)

Survey results are from the 2018 National Citizen Survey, conducted every two years by the National Research Center, Inc., Boulder, Colo., on behalf of the  International City/County Management Association.
 

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