Fact text

  • The Landings on Skidaway Island is one of the largest gated communities in the entire country.
  • Baseball legend Bobby Thomson, famous for one of sport's most celebrated home runs, spent his final years on Skidaway Island.
  • The island hosts its own oceanography research institute run by the University of Georgia, not bad for a place best known for golf courses.
  • Nobody is quite sure where the name 'Skidaway' comes from, and experts have been puzzling over it for decades.
Your
Skidaway Island
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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8846
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Total Population
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$
101230
Median Income
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$
543100
Median Home
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53
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Skidaway Island
ranks for retirees?
18
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
21
Healthcare
1
Climate
65

Results

Skidaway Island

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

Georgia does not tax Social Security benefits, offering retirees a meaningful break, though a state income tax does apply to other retirement income.

State sales tax here runs about

4

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
4
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
21

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
21
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
1

The area has

3

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

2

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
2
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
65

A

Mild

climate — summers peak near

91

°F, winters dip to about

40

°F, with roughly

0

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Mild
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively High

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