Rental Information for Apartments in Norcross

Every summer the City of Norcross holds a series of free concerts in Thrasher Park. It begins on Memorial Day and continues every other Friday throughout the summer, ending on the weekend of Labor Day. From June through October, the Whistle Stop Farmers' Market features fresh local produce, live music, and cooking demos. The award-winning Lionheart Theatre Company puts on productions at the College Street Playhouse, located at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center.

Yes. Public education in Norcross is primarily provided by Gwinnett County Public Schools. Rated better than 90.6 percent of school districts in Georgia and 37.7 percent of school districts in the country, this district provides excellent education to Norcross pupils when compared to the rest of the state. The district consists of 122 schools serving over 144,000 students in several cities. There are also a few private schools in the area.

Compared to the US average of 25 percent, 36 percent of people working in Norcross are employed in blue-collar occupations. Norcross is primarily a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. The top five industries in which Norcross residents are employed are construction (20 percent), manufacturing (13 percent), administration (11 percent), accommodation (11 percent), and retail (9 percent). After that comes wholesale (5 percent), healthcare (4 percent), professional, scientific, and technical services (4 percent), information technology (4 percent), finance (4 percent), transportation (4 percent), other (4 percent), and education (3 percent). Accounting for 80 percent of the Norcross job market, jobs in Norcross's private sector make up the majority of employment in the area.

Norcross isn't home to any museums, but there are several nearby. Duluth, for example, is home to the Southeastern Railway Museum, which features about 90 items of rolling stock on a 35-acre site. The best-known museums in the area, however, are in Atlanta. Located 30 minutes southwest of Norcross, Atlanta is home to art museums like the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Atlanta is also home to the Atlanta History Center, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum, the Carter Center and Presidential Library, Rhodes Hall, the Wren's Nest, the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, the World of Coca-Cola, the Delta Heritage Museum, the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum.