About Comer

Comer is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 4,075 people and just one neighborhood, Comer is the 186th largest community in Georgia.

Comer is a blue-collar town, with 41.5% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Comer is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Comer who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.10%), sales jobs (8.28%), and teaching (5.63%).

Comer is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Comer 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. 97.4% 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Comer doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Comer Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Comer with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 11.38% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Comer in 2000 was $16,985, 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 $67,940 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Comer is English.