Talbotton is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 736 people and just one neighborhood, Talbotton is the 360th largest community in Georgia.
Talbotton is a blue-collar town, with 38.01% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Talbotton is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Talbotton who work in teaching (31.85%), office and administrative support (9.59%), and food service (7.19%).
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, Talbotton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Talbotton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Talbotton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 44.89 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Talbotton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Talbotton ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.61% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Talbotton in 2022 was $42,822, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $171,288 for a family of four. However, Talbotton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Talbotton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.23% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Talbotton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Talbotton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Talbotton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Talbotton include English, German, French, Scots-Irish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Talbotton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and French.
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 Talbotton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.5% 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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.7% of America.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America.
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 Talbotton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.4% 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, 38.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.3%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households.
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 Talbotton, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (77.8%) 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 (21.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.