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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Homerville - Fargo is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,628 people and just one neighborhood, Homerville - Fargo is the 282nd largest community in Georgia.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Homerville - Fargo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.23% of the Homerville - Fargo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Homerville - Fargo is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Homerville - Fargo who work in farm management occupations (25.10%), healthcare (11.35%), and management occupations (9.76%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.16% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Homerville - Fargo 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. Homerville - Fargo has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Homerville - Fargo than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Homerville - Fargo may be for you.
Being a small town, Homerville - Fargo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Homerville - Fargo with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.94% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Homerville - Fargo in 2022 was $32,564, 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 $130,256 for a family of four. However, Homerville - Fargo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Homerville - Fargo is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Homerville - Fargo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Homerville - Fargo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Homerville - Fargo include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Homerville - Fargo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Homerville - Fargo, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Real Estate
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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.7% of America.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 36.8% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Migration / Stability
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American 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 Homerville - Fargo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.5% 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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.1%), and 12.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).
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 Homerville - Fargo, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (3.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.6%), and residents who report Native American roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.8%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
