About Woolsey

Woolsey is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 168 people and just one neighborhood, Woolsey is the 467th largest community in Georgia.

Woolsey is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Woolsey is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Woolsey who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.18%), management occupations (15.07%), and personal care services (15.07%).

Also of interest is that Woolsey has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Woolsey is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Woolsey really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Woolsey perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Woolsey is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Woolsey, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Woolsey 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.

Woolsey Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Woolsey is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.44% of adults in Woolsey have a college degree.

The per capita income in Woolsey in 2000 was $42,177, which is wealthy relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $168,708 for a family of four. However, Woolsey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Woolsey is English.