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About the Vinings Community

Vinings is an unincorporated town in Cobb County, Georgia, just across the Chattahoochee River from Atlanta. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 9,734. It is located between the affluent West Paces Ferry section of Buckhead in northwest Atlanta, and suburban Smyrna in Cobb County, adjacent to the Cumberland edge city. The U.S. Postal Service uses “Atlanta” for all Vinings addresses (ZIP code 30339), and “Vinings” is, paradoxically, listed as “not acceptable”.

Home Depot is headquartered just outside Vinings.
History

The Union Army occupied the Vinings area during Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War in 1864 on his March to the Sea. Unfortunately, Pace’s home which had been used as a hospital for Union troops was destroyed in the process. Vinings recovered after the war, as Governor Brown leased the railroad to Vinings to bring passengers to the springs and pavilions built to encourage a respite from the reconstruction of Atlanta. Vinings was officially recognized as a community in 1904, the same year the one-lane bridge was constructed across the Chattahoochee River.

Early on, Vinings was known as Crossroads, and then Paces, after Hardy Pace around 1830. He operated Pace’s Ferry across the Chattahoochee River, in this area between Atlanta, Buckhead, and Smyrna. Paces Ferry Road is still the main east/west road through town. The Western and Atlantic Railroad laid rail tracks from Atlanta, northwest to Chattanooga in the 1840s. Vinings became a construction station for the railroad, and was inadvertently named for Wlliam H. Vining as he worked on the railroad construction of “Vinings Bridge” laying tracks in the area.

The Vinings Historic Preservation Society seeks to keep the town’s history alive.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.5 km²), of which 3.2 square miles (8.3 km²) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km²), or 3.34{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f}, is water.

Demographics

As of the census^[1] of 2000, there were 9,677 people, 5,227 households, and 1,740 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 3,039.2 people per square mile (1,174.9/km²). There were 5,670 housing units at an average density of 1,780.8/sq mi (688.4/km²). There were 5,227 households out of which 11.5{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.3{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} were married couples living together, 5.2{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} had a female householder with no husband present, and 66.7{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} were non-families. 43.3{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} of all households were made up of individuals and 2.4{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.84 and the average family size was 2.61.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $88,876, and the median income for a family was $105,121. Males had a median income of $78,685 versus $46,315 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $61,068. About 3.3{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} of families and 5.2{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.1{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} of those under age 18 and 3.9{55c62a160aea5bee5d76a19365e3361029a738c4d965c149016a5c45fc39a61f} of those age 65 or over.

Government

Vinings residents attend schools in the Cobb County School District. Residents are zoned to Teasley Elementary School, Campbell Middle School, and Campbell High School.

Vinings is unincorporated, and is therefore under the jurisdiction of Cobb’s county commission and other public services. After the success of Sandy Springs, there was discussion and at least one public meeting on whether the town should also incorporate as a “city” (the only type of municipality in Georgia).