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Baconton, GA

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Overview


Baconton is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 842 people and just one neighborhood, Baconton is the 346th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Baconton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.73% of Baconton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Baconton is a city of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baconton who work in sales jobs (10.50%), management occupations (9.45%), and healthcare suport services (8.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Baconton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Baconton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The population of Baconton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.47% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Baconton in 2018 was $23,632, 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 $94,528 for a family of four. However, Baconton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.1% 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.

In addition, 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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.3% of America.

Occupations

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 43.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry.

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 Baconton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.9% 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, 43.3% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.5%), and 11.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.8%).

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 Baconton, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report German roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Brazilian ancestry (2.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (46.2% 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 (8.8%) . 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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