Pine Lake is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 732 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Lake is the 358th largest community in Georgia.
Pine Lake is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Lake is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Lake who work in office and administrative support (20.45%), management occupations (19.63%), and community and social services (6.95%).
Of important note, Pine Lake is also a city of artists. Pine Lake has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pine Lake’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Pine Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 27.33% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Pine Lake, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.22 minutes every day commuting to work.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Pine Lake, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Pine Lake is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 59.76% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Pine Lake in 2022 was $39,280, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $157,120 for a family of four. However, Pine Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pine Lake is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pine Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pine Lake include English, Irish, German, Jamaican, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Pine Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 3.6% have Jamaican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% 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 Pine Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.3% 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, 31.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.6%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and African languages.
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 Pine Lake, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (31.5%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.7%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (69.9%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.