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Willacoochee, GA

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Overview


Willacoochee is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,243 people and just one neighborhood, Willacoochee is the 304th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Willacoochee is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.69% of the Willacoochee workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Willacoochee is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Willacoochee who work in maintenance occupations (15.11%), office and administrative support (8.70%), and healthcare (8.05%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Willacoochee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Willacoochee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Willacoochee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Willacoochee has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.72% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Willacoochee in 2022 was $19,507, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,028 for a family of four.

Willacoochee is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Willacoochee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Willacoochee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Willacoochee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.73% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Willacoochee include Irish, German, Scottish, English, and Eastern European.

The most common language spoken in Willacoochee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Willacoochee, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 50.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Willacoochee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.6% 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, 32.3% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.7%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (21.9%).

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 Willacoochee, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.5%), among others. In addition, 12.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (14.2%) . 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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