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Attapulgus, GA

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Overview


Attapulgus is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 448 people and just one neighborhood, Attapulgus is the 408th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Attapulgus is a blue-collar town, with 41.01% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Attapulgus is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Attapulgus who work in office and administrative support (31.46%), maintenance occupations (8.15%), and farm management occupations (6.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Attapulgus’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Attapulgus has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Attapulgus has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Attapulgus than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Attapulgus may be for you.

One downside of living in Attapulgus is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Attapulgus, the average commute to work is 38.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Attapulgus doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Attapulgus ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.67% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Attapulgus in 2018 was $17,573, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,292 for a family of four. However, Attapulgus contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Attapulgus also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.04% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Attapulgus is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Attapulgus home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Attapulgus residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Attapulgus also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.87% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Attapulgus include Irish, English, German, Finnish, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all American 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 6.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, 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 41.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.0% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 26 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (53.6%) than found in 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

The Neighbors

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 Attapulgus are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 53.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.2% 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, 41.6% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.9%).

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 Attapulgus, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.7%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.9%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 12.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.6%) 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 (7.1%) . 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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