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Waresboro, GA

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Overview


Waresboro is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 375 people and just one neighborhood, Waresboro is the 430th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Waresboro is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.29% of the Waresboro workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Waresboro is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Waresboro who work in management occupations (32.35%), personal care services (22.35%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Waresboro is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Waresboro has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Waresboro a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Waresboro, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.12 minutes every day commuting to work.

Waresboro 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.

Demographics

Waresboro ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Waresboro in 2022 was $20,872, 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 $83,488 for a family of four.

Waresboro is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Waresboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waresboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Waresboro include Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Waresboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French Creole.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Waresboro, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.6% 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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Waresboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.5% 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, 36.4% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Waresboro, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (4.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report German roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (50.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (10.9%) . 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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