Shellman is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 824 people and just one neighborhood, Shellman is the 345th largest community in Georgia.
Shellman is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shellman is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Shellman who work in sales jobs (17.15%), office and administrative support (15.06%), and management occupations (11.72%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Shellman has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shellman a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Despite the fact that it is a small city, Shellman has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly taxis - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the city for affordable transportation.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Shellman rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.10% of adults 25 and older in Shellman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Shellman in 2022 was $21,849, 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 $87,396 for a family of four. However, Shellman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Shellman also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.30% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Shellman is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shellman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shellman residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Shellman include English, European, Irish, Swiss, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Shellman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Shellman, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.6% of America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 34.0%, which is higher than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% 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 Shellman are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.9% 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, 36.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.0%), and 18.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Shellman, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (8.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.2%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.