Sale City is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 350 people and just one neighborhood, Sale City is the 434th largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Sale City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.68% of Sale City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sale City is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sale City who work in office and administrative support (12.23%), sales jobs (8.63%), and healthcare suport services (8.63%).
In addition, many people in Sale City 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, Sale City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sale City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Sale City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Sale City with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.38% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sale City in 2022 was $18,516, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,064 for a family of four. However, Sale City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sale City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.30% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Sale City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sale City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sale City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sale City include Irish, English, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Sale City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 28 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Sale City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.7% of U.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, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.6%), and 18.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.2%).
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 Sale City, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.7%).
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 (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.