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. Lula has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Lula, where the median household income is $64,282.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lula is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.20% of the Lula workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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.
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!) Lula 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. Lula has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lula than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lula may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Lula doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
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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 the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. 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.