Blairsville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 785 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Blairsville is the 382nd largest community in Georgia.Blairsville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Blairsville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blairsville who work in office and administrative support (15.56%), law enforcement and fire fighting (14.79%), and sales jobs (10.89%). 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, Blairsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blairsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 13.75 minutes getting to work every day. As is often the case in a small city, Blairsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.Blairsville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.90% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Blairsville in 2022 was $23,106, 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 $92,424 for a family of four. Blairsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.Blairsville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Blairsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blairsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blairsville include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Blairsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
