Sunny Side is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 212 people and just one neighborhood, Sunny Side is the 471st largest community in Georgia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sunny Side is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.00% of the Sunny Side workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sunny Side is a city of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sunny Side who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (15.22%), management occupations (15.22%), and sales jobs (7.61%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.78% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Overall, Sunny Side’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Sunny Side has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sunny Side a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Sunny Side is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sunny Side, the average commute to work is 30.99 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Sunny Side doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Sunny Side has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.10% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Sunny Side in 2022 was $22,462, 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 $89,848 for a family of four. However, Sunny Side contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sunny Side is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sunny Side home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sunny Side residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sunny Side include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Guyanese.
The most common language spoken in Sunny Side is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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 Sunny Side, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.4% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.1% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Sunny Side are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.2% of U.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, 42.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.5%), and 5.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Sunny Side, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (45.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.9%) 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.