Nahunta is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,028 people and just one neighborhood, Nahunta is the 319th largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Nahunta, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.05% of Nahunta’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Nahunta is a city of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Nahunta who work in business and financial occupations (13.68%), healthcare (9.21%), and sales jobs (8.42%).
Of important note, Nahunta is also a city of artists. Nahunta has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Nahunta’s character.
Overall, Nahunta’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Nahunta 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. Nahunta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nahunta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nahunta may be for you.
One downside of living in Nahunta, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.92 minutes every day commuting to work.
Nahunta is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Nahunta rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.98% of adults 25 and older in Nahunta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Nahunta in 2022 was $16,288, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,152 for a family of four. However, Nahunta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Nahunta also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.71% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Nahunta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nahunta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nahunta residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Nahunta include Irish, Eastern European, English, German, and Iraqi.
The most common language spoken in Nahunta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and German/Yiddish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.7% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 2.9% have Eastern European ancestry.
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.
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 Nahunta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% 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, 40.0% 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 35.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.6%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
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 Nahunta, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of British ancestry (6.2%), along with some Eastern European ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (93.5%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.