About Baldwin

Baldwin is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,739 people and just one neighborhood, Baldwin is the 229th largest community in Georgia.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Baldwin is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.2% of the Baldwin workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Baldwin is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baldwin who work in sales jobs (11.01%), office and administrative support jobs (9.97%), and teaching (5.95%).

Baldwin is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Baldwin 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. 96.94% 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.

Baldwin 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.

Baldwin Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Baldwin is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 10.74% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Baldwin in 2000 was $16,404, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $65,616 for a family of four.

The people who call Baldwin home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Baldwin is White, followed by Asian. Baldwin also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.50% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Baldwin include English, Irish, and German.

The most common language spoken in Baldwin is English. Some people also speak Spanish.