Eton is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 836 people and just one neighborhood, Eton is the 348th largest community in Georgia. Eton 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 Eton, where the median household income is $85,313.00.
Eton is a blue-collar town, with 39.36% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Eton is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eton who work in maintenance occupations (11.29%), sales jobs (8.54%), and office and administrative support (7.96%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.57% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Eton 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.
The rate of college-level education in Eton is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.32% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Eton in 2022 was $22,706, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,824 for a family of four. However, Eton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Eton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Eton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.90% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Eton include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and European.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Eton's cultural character, accounting for 27.13% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Eton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.3% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.5% have Cuban ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Eton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.3% 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, 49.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.8%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Eton, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Asian roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban ancestry (3.5%), along with some South American ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 16.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.