Omega is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,320 people and just one neighborhood, Omega is the 301st largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Omega, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.00% of Omega’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Omega is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Omega who work in sales jobs (18.91%), office and administrative support (15.43%), and farm management occupations (13.70%).
In addition, many people in Omega have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
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, Omega has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Omega a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Omega is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Omega, the average commute to work is 32.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Omega does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Omega has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.21% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Omega in 2022 was $23,409, 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 $93,636 for a family of four. However, Omega contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Omega also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Omega is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Omega home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Omega, accounting for 56.52% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Omega residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Omega include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and British.
In addition, Omega has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (24.29%).
The most common language spoken in Omega is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Omega, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.0% 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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 92.8% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Omega are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 38.4% 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 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 63.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (35.9%).
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 Omega, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 17.8% 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (20.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.