About Rutledge

Rutledge is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 705 people and just one neighborhood, Rutledge is the 368th largest community in Georgia.

When you are in Rutledge, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.5% of Rutledge's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Rutledge is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rutledge who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.50%), sales jobs (8.33%), and teaching (7.05%).

Rutledge is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Rutledge isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small city, Rutledge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Rutledge Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Rutledge who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 15.55% of the adults in Rutledge have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rutledge in 2000 was $17,732, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,928 for a family of four.

Rutledge is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rutledge home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rutledge is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rutledge include English, German, Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Rutledge is English.