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Nahunta, GA

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Overview


Nahunta is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,028 people and just one neighborhood, Nahunta is the 319th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Nahunta, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.05% of Nahunta’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Nahunta is a city of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Nahunta who work in business and financial occupations (13.68%), healthcare (9.21%), and sales jobs (8.42%).

Of important note, Nahunta is also a city of artists. Nahunta has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Nahunta’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Nahunta’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Nahunta 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. Nahunta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nahunta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nahunta may be for you.

One downside of living in Nahunta, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.92 minutes every day commuting to work.

Nahunta 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.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Nahunta rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.98% of adults 25 and older in Nahunta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Nahunta in 2022 was $16,288, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,152 for a family of four. However, Nahunta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Nahunta also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.71% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Nahunta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nahunta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nahunta residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Nahunta include Irish, Eastern European, English, German, and Iraqi.

The most common language spoken in Nahunta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.7% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 2.9% have Eastern European ancestry.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Nahunta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% 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, 40.0% 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 35.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.6%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Nahunta, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of British ancestry (6.2%), along with some Eastern European ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (93.5%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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