Shady Dale is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 287 people and just one neighborhood, Shady Dale is the 460th largest community in Georgia.
Shady Dale is a blue-collar town, with 59.40% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Shady Dale is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Shady Dale who work in healthcare (9.77%), farm management occupations (8.27%), and management occupations (8.27%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Shady Dale work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
The town 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, Shady Dale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shady Dale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Shady Dale is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Shady Dale ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.42% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shady Dale in 2022 was $25,332, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,328 for a family of four. However, Shady Dale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shady Dale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shady Dale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shady Dale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Shady Dale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 37.15% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shady Dale include German, English, French, Irish, and Polish.
Shady Dale also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 22.57%.
The most common language spoken in Shady Dale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Shady Dale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.5% 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, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Shady Dale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.6% 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, 36.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.3%).
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 Shady Dale, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.