Cumming, Georgia is the county seat of Forsyth County, which had a population of approximately 160,000 in the 2007 census. The county was named as the 13th highest-income counties by Forbes Magazine this year - due to its median household income of nearly $84,000 per year - which is nearly 40% higher than other neighboring counties.
Several large companies are located in the county, including Scientific Games, the producer of lottery tickets for the Georgia Lottery; Tyson Foods, which has maintained a poultry processing plant in downtown Cumming since the 1950s; and AutomationDirect. In 2004 New York Life Insurance Company opened an operations center in Cumming.
Cumming is one of the Atlanta area's most affluent residential communities. In the coming years, it is expected that the whole area will experience rapid economic and residential developments.
