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Population Demographics (2013)
Total population North Fulton – 386,351
Total population Sandy Springs – 99,770
White – 65% African American – 20%
Asian – 5% Native American – .3%
household incomes
Per Capita – $52,959 Median Household – $68,200
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2013 statistics; City of Sandy
Springs Economic Development

More than 58 percent of the residents of Sandy Springs
have a college or advanced degree. To fit the needs of the
educated workforce in Sandy Springs, the jobs in the City are
high-quality jobs, which result in a median household income
of about $68,200. Business and employee training is readily
Sandy Springs: available as well.
The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute helps
New Home of NYSE companies and residents improve their capabilities by

Is there any feat more financially prestigious than providing instruction in science, technology, and innovation
through its university-based programs. The institute aids
owning the New York Stock Exchange? Jeffrey Sprecher, entrepreneurs in launching new companies and in becoming
one of Sandy Springs’ own, would be the one to ask respectable contenders in the business market once
about that. they’re established.
How fitting that the new owner of the NYSE should Another asset in training the City’s workforce is the
live in one of the largest, most business-oriented North Fulton Atlanta’s Service Corps of Retired Executives
cities in Georgia. Sprecher and his company, the
IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc. or ICE, a 12-year-
old company based in Atlanta, bought the New York
Stock Exchange in an $8.2 billion takeover, adding
the NYSE to its portfolio that now includes 16 global
exchanges and five clearing houses.
The company is dual-headquartered in Atlanta and
New York, where the “Big Board” is housed. ICE employs
more than 400 of its 4,000 staff in Sandy Springs, and is
home for CEO Sprecher and his wife and ICE Senior Vice
President, Kelly Loeffler. In a speech before the Sandy
Springs/Perimeter Chamber, Sprecher said that when he
purchased his first company back in 1997, he gave the
staff the option of living in Los Angeles – where he was
then residing – or metro Atlanta. None voted to go west.
Sprecher added that he thought the metro area is
one of the best places in the country to do business
and Sandy Springs an amazing place for business
and to live. The Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber of
Commerce would agree and the City is excited to have
the new owner of the NYSE in its midst.
~by Dana Moody

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