Luthersville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 814 people and just one neighborhood, Luthersville is the 351st largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Luthersville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.33% of Luthersville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Luthersville is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Luthersville who work in healthcare suport services (8.65%), maintenance occupations (8.07%), and management occupations (6.34%).
Overall, Luthersville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Luthersville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Luthersville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.67 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, Luthersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Luthersville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.64% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Luthersville in 2022 was $23,949, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,796 for a family of four. However, Luthersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Luthersville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Luthersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Luthersville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Luthersville include English, European, African, German, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Luthersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research reveals that 89.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Luthersville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.1% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Luthersville, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (6.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report English roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.4%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.