Avondale Estates, Georgia

Avondale Estates is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia. The population of the city is 2,960.
Avondale Estates	Georgia
Incorporated 	1927
County 	DeKalb
Population 	2,960
Elevation 	1,027 ft (313 m)
Mayor 	Abel Payne
ZIP code 	30002
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
82.87% White (2,453)
9.63% Black or African American (285)
4.56% Other (135)
2.94% Hispanic or Latino (87)
2.5% (74) of Avondale Estates residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Avondale Estates has low rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The city reported 2 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 0.83 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the DeKalb County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Avondale Estates was founded in 1924 by George Francis Willis, a patent medicine magnate, who purchased the entire village of Ingleside to create a planned community. The city was named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England, birthplace of Shakespeare. Downtown buildings were designed in a Tudor style to reinforce this image, as were many of the houses in the city.
* The movie, “Instant Family” (2018), starring Mark Wahlberg and produced by Wahlberg, was filmed in Avondale.
* The mostly Tudor-style downtown area of Avondale Estates, known as the commercial district, is home to a variety of businesses including antique and consignment stores. Pizza, Mexican fare, southern comfort food, a soda fountain/diner and Chicago style hot dogs are some of the restaurant fare options within the city limits. The city is also the location of the first Waffle House, which opened its doors Labor Day weekend of 1955. Waffle House operates a museum at the original location today, and a separate restaurant elsewhere in the city.
* In 2008, local parents began organizing formal efforts through the Avondale Education Association, a local grass-roots non-profit organization that was founded in October 2003, to create a charter school that would achieve the standards required by law, while establishing an elementary school that reflected the values of the community. Their proposal was initially rejected by the Dekalb County School Board, but it was subsequently selected by the Georgia Charter Schools Commission as one of a small number of schools to be chartered directly by the State of Georgia. The school, Museum School of Avondale Estates, opened in 2010, and Avondale Estates therefore lies within its attendance zone.
* Avondale Estates is mostly residential and has very little to offer outside of a few local restaurants and businesses.
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