Clermont is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,125 people and just one neighborhood, Clermont is the 318th largest community in Georgia. Clermont has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Clermont, where the median household income is $96,875.00.
Clermont real estate is some of the most expensive in Georgia, although Clermont house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Clermont is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Clermont is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Clermont who work in sales jobs (17.22%), office and administrative support (12.44%), and management occupations (11.48%).
One downside of living in Clermont is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Clermont, the average commute to work is 33.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Clermont does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Clermont is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.87% of adults 25 and older in Clermont have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Clermont in 2022 was $44,240, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $176,960 for a family of four. However, Clermont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clermont home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clermont residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Clermont include English, German, Irish, British, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Clermont is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Clermont are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 37.3% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).
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 Clermont, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.