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Willacoochee, GA

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Overview


Willacoochee is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,227 people and just one neighborhood, Willacoochee is the 304th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Willacoochee is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.69% of the Willacoochee workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Willacoochee is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Willacoochee who work in maintenance occupations (15.11%), office and administrative support (8.70%), and healthcare (8.05%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Willacoochee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Willacoochee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Willacoochee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Willacoochee ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.72% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Willacoochee in 2022 was $19,507, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,028 for a family of four.

Willacoochee is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Willacoochee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Willacoochee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Willacoochee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.73% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Willacoochee include Irish, German, Scottish, English, and Eastern European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 50.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 Willacoochee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.6% of U.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, 32.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.7%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (21.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Willacoochee, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.5%), among others. In addition, 12.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (14.2%) . 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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