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.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Nahunta is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.05% of the Nahunta workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Nahunta, the average commute to work is 32.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
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.
The percentage of adults in Nahunta with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.98% of adults in Nahunta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
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.
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 Nahunta, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 93.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. 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, 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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of 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.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.
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 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.