Welcome to DeKalb County,
the crown jewel of the metropolitan Atlanta region.
With over 700,000 residents, DeKalb is Georgia's third largest county, with a population greater than the entire states of Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota. Home to Emory University, the Center for Disease Control, and Philips Consumer Electronics, to name a few, DeKalb boasts a growing labor base - professional, skilled and hourly - and a menu of customized training programs in the latest technologies. Our culturally diverse population includes over 64 spoken languages and a melting pot of well-educated communities - Asian, Hispanic, European, and African, to name a few. Whatever your business, DeKalb has the labor that you will need to acquire a competitive edge in today's global market.
And as your product travels to market, DeKalb's transportation nexus will save you time and money. Four multi-directional interstates traverse DeKalb, allowing one-day truck travel to more than 60% of the US consumer market. The Port of Savannah and global maritime access is less than 5 hours drive, and Hartsfield International Airport, the world's busiest air center, an immediate neighbor. Travel, global or domestic, is easily achieved from DeKalb.
We hope that our website is helpful in your site search. We have designed it to provide you with a broad array of essential data, and have installed links to allow you easy access to additional data, should you need it. The DeKalb Differentiator is customer service: we want your business and are deeply committed to helping you become the market leader in your industry.
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