McRae-Helena is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 4,759 people and three associated neighborhoods, McRae-Helena is the 135th largest community in Georgia.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.72% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of McRae-Helena spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, McRae-Helena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In McRae-Helena, just 7.35% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in McRae-Helena in 2022 was $12,592, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $50,368 for a family of four. However, McRae-Helena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McRae-Helena also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.09% of its population below the federal poverty line.
McRae-Helena is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McRae-Helena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McRae-Helena residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. McRae-Helena also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McRae-Helena include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in McRae-Helena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.