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Homer, GA

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Overview


Homer is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,526 people and just one neighborhood, Homer is the 302nd largest community in Georgia. Much of the housing stock in Homer was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Homer economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Homer, where the median household income is $73,542.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Homer is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Homer is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Homer who work in sales jobs (16.15%), office and administrative support (14.73%), and management occupations (10.62%).

Also of interest is that Homer has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

In Homer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.91 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Homer are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.96% of adults in Homer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Homer in 2022 was $30,296, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,184 for a family of four. However, Homer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Homer is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Homer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Homer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Homer include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, Welsh, and German.

The most common language spoken in Homer is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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

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 Homer are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 35.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Homer, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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