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!) Ellijay 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. Ellijay has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ellijay than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ellijay may be for you.
Being a small city, Ellijay does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Ellijay with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.39% of adults in Ellijay have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ellijay in 2022 was $26,364, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,456 for a family of four. However, Ellijay contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ellijay is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ellijay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellijay residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ellijay also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.60% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ellijay include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ellijay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
