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Pendergrass, GA

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Overview


Pendergrass is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,758 people and just one neighborhood, Pendergrass is the 277th largest community in Georgia. Much of the housing stock in Pendergrass was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Pendergrass economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Pendergrass, where the median household income is $73,947.00.

Pendergrass real estate is some of the most expensive in Georgia, although Pendergrass house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pendergrass is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pendergrass is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pendergrass who work in office and administrative support (14.25%), sales jobs (9.73%), and food service (6.56%).

Also of interest is that Pendergrass 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, Pendergrass 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, Pendergrass really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pendergrass 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Pendergrass doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Pendergrass is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.90% of adults 25 and older in Pendergrass have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pendergrass in 2018 was $23,879, 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 $95,516 for a family of four. However, Pendergrass contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pendergrass is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pendergrass home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pendergrass residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pendergrass also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.06% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pendergrass include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Ghanian.

The most common language spoken in Pendergrass is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.

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.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.4% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Georgia. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

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 Pendergrass are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% 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 70.8% of America'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, 35.6% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.4%).

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 Pendergrass, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (5.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.2%), among others. In addition, 11.3% 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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