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Omega, GA

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Overview


Omega is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,320 people and just one neighborhood, Omega is the 301st largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Omega, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.00% of Omega’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Omega is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Omega who work in sales jobs (18.91%), office and administrative support (15.43%), and farm management occupations (13.70%).

In addition, many people in Omega have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Omega 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. Omega has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Omega than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Omega may be for you.

One downside of living in Omega, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.48 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The population of Omega has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.21% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Omega in 2022 was $23,409, 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 $93,636 for a family of four. However, Omega contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Omega also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Omega is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Omega home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Omega, accounting for 56.52% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Omega residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Omega include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and British.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Omega's cultural character, accounting for 24.29% of the city’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.0% 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.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 7.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of America's neighborhoods.

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 Omega are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.9% 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, 38.4% 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 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 63.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (35.9%).

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 Omega, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 17.8% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (20.9%) . 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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