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Varnell, GA

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Overview


Varnell is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,227 people and just one neighborhood, Varnell is the 253rd largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Varnell isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Varnell are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Varnell is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Varnell who work in office and administrative support (12.53%), management occupations (10.32%), and teaching (9.89%).

Also of interest is that Varnell has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Varnell is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Varnell really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Varnell perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Varnell 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.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Varnell is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.28% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Varnell in 2022 was $32,068, 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 $128,272 for a family of four. However, Varnell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Varnell is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Varnell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Varnell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Varnell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.69% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Varnell include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Varnell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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 Varnell are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.4% 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 73.4% of America'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, 40.7% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.5%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 74.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Varnell, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report German roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (58.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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