About Tybee Island

Tybee Island is a very small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,432 people and just one neighborhood, Tybee Island is the 210th largest community in Georgia.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Tybee Island is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tybee Island is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tybee Island who work in management occupations (13.44%), food service (10.23%), and sales jobs (9.15%).

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Tybee Island are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. This is certainly the case with Tybee Island, which has a vibrant tourist economy.

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

Tybee Island Information and Demographics

The education level of Tybee Island citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 33.37% of adults in Tybee Island have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tybee Island in 2000 was $32,406, which is wealthy relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,624 for a family of four.

The people who call Tybee Island home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Tybee Island is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tybee Island include English, Irish, German, Italian, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Tybee Island is English.