Webster County is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Webster County enrolled in college, Webster County has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Overall, Webster County’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Webster County has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Webster County has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Webster County than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Webster County may be for you.
One downside of living in Webster County is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Webster County, the average commute to work is 32.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The rate of college-level education in Webster County is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.34% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Webster County in 2022 was $25,407, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,628 for a family of four. However, Webster County contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Webster County is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Webster County home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Webster County residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Webster County include English, German, Irish, African, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Webster County is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
