Lula is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,993 people and just one neighborhood, Lula is the 225th largest community in Georgia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Lula, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Lula, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Lula’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Lula does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $64,282.00.
When you are in Lula, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.20% of Lula’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lula is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lula who work in sales jobs (10.79%), office and administrative support (9.87%), and maintenance occupations (6.64%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.55% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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, Lula has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lula a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Lula does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Lula with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.56% of adults in Lula have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lula in 2022 was $28,621, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,484 for a family of four. However, Lula contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lula is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lula home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lula residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lula include English, German, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Lula is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry.
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 Lula are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.0% of America'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, 33.2% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 19.1% 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 90.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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 Lula, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.0%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 (37.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.