14 Things to Know About Cobb County

Folks who live and work in Cobb County know the benefits, but how much do you really know about your hometown? Let’s take a look at some fun facts about the place many of our customers call “home.” Here are 14 good things to know about Cobb County:

1. The U.S. Census Bureau ranks Cobb County as the most-educated in the state of Georgia and 12th among all counties in the United States.
2. It has ranked among the top 100 wealthiest counties in the United States.
3. The county was named for Thomas Willis Cobb, a United States representative and senator from Georgia. It is believed that Marietta was named for his wife, Mary.
4. As of 2014, the estimated Cobb County population was 730,981, making it the fourth-most populous county in Georgia.
5. In 1990, Republican Congressmen Newt Gingrich became Representative of a new district centered around Cobb County. In 1994, as Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in almost fifty years, Gingrich became Speaker of the House, thrusting Cobb County into the national spotlight.
6. In the 1990s and 2000s, Cobb’s demographics changed. As Atlanta’s gentrification reversed decades of white flight, middle-class African-Americans and Russian, Bosnian, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Mexican and Central American immigrants moved to older suburbs in South and West Cobb. In 2010, African-American Democrat David Scott was elected to Georgia’s 13th congressional district, which included many of those suburbs.
7. Kennesaw Mountain is the highest point in the county and in the entire suburban area of metro Atlanta, located in the north-northwest between Kennesaw and Marietta.
8. As of 2013, there were over 290,000 households in the county.
9. The Cobb County School District serves all county locations except the city of Marietta, which is served by Marietta City Schools. There are over twenty private schools that serve various grades from elementary to high school aged students.
10. Cobb boasts several colleges and universities, including: Chattahoochee Technical College, Kennesaw State University (recently consolidated with Southern Polytechnic State University) and Life University.
11. The Cobb County School District is Cobb County’s largest employer, employing over 20,000 people. Private corporations include:

• The Home Depot Atlanta Store Support Center, world headquarters
• The Weather Channel headquarters
• InTown Suites headquarters
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Plant, located next to Dobbins Air Reserve Base
in unincorporated Cobb.
• Kool Smiles (Marietta)
• Coca-Cola headquarters
• General Electric’s Energy Management business headquarters