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Crawford - Lexington, GA

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Overview


Crawford - Lexington is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,650 people and just one neighborhood, Crawford - Lexington is the 241st largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Crawford - Lexington is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Crawford - Lexington is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crawford - Lexington who work in teaching (13.88%), healthcare (11.57%), and management occupations (10.17%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Crawford - Lexington, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.32 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Crawford - Lexington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The overall education level of Crawford - Lexington is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.35% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Crawford - Lexington in 2022 was $31,625, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,500 for a family of four. However, Crawford - Lexington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Crawford - Lexington is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Crawford - Lexington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crawford - Lexington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Crawford - Lexington include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African.

The most common language spoken in Crawford - Lexington is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Crawford - Lexington is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in GA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.6% of the neighborhoods in Georgia. If you are considering retiring to Georgia, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.5% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Crawford - Lexington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 43.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Crawford - Lexington, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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