Georgia consumer spending
What Georgians spend and how far their paychecks go: personal consumption expenditures (BEA), a Southeast-peer comparison, residential electricity demand and price (EIA), and a real-wage purchasing-power tracker.
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Total consumer spending
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Per-capita spending
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BEA PCE per resident
Residential electricity
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Real wages
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Purchasing power, YoY
Consumer spending over time
Total personal consumption expenditures ($ billions), Georgia vs. the United States. Annual, current dollars. Source: BEA SAPCE.
Source: BEA SAPCE1 — total personal consumption expenditures, current dollars.
What Georgians spend on
Share of consumer spending by category, latest year. Source: BEA SAPCE.
Source: BEA SAPCE2 (by function) or SAPCE1 (goods vs. services), Georgia.
Per-capita spending vs. Southeast
Per-capita PCE, Georgia vs. FL / NC / SC / TN / AL and the U.S., latest year. Source: BEA SAPCE3.
Source: BEA SAPCE3 — per-capita personal consumption expenditures.
Georgia residential electricity — demand & price
Monthly residential electricity sales (GWh, bars) and the average retail price (cents per kWh, line) for Georgia households. The most current monthly consumer signal on this page. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Source: EIA API v2 — electricity retail sales, Georgia residential sector (NAICS-equivalent). Sales in GWh, price in ¢/kWh.
Purchasing power (real wages)
Inflation-adjusted average wages — how far a Georgia paycheck actually stretches. Source: BLS, via the inflation tracker.
Source: BLS real-wage tracker (reused from the inflation page).
Taxable spending proxy
Georgia general sales-tax collections — a proxy for taxable consumer spending. Source: Census / FRED.
Source: Census Quarterly Summary of State & Local Tax Revenue / FRED (best-effort).