Jenkinsburg is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 417 people and just one neighborhood, Jenkinsburg is the 423rd largest community in Georgia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Jenkinsburg, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Jenkinsburg, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Jenkinsburg’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Jenkinsburg does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $80,682.00.
Jenkinsburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Jenkinsburg is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Jenkinsburg who work in sales jobs (11.24%), food service (9.47%), and office and administrative support (8.88%).
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, Jenkinsburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jenkinsburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Jenkinsburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.83 minutes every day commuting to work.
Jenkinsburg 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 overall education level of Jenkinsburg is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.75% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Jenkinsburg in 2022 was $34,340, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,360 for a family of four. However, Jenkinsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jenkinsburg is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Jenkinsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jenkinsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jenkinsburg include English, Irish, European, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Jenkinsburg 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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.3% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
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 Jenkinsburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.2% 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, 37.8% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.3%).
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 Jenkinsburg, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.0%), along with some South American ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (30.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.