About Tallapoosa

Tallapoosa is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,847 people and just one neighborhood, Tallapoosa is the 223rd largest community in Georgia.

Tallapoosa is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tallapoosa is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tallapoosa who work in teaching (10.95%), sales jobs (10.60%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.43%).

Tallapoosa is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Tallapoosa 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. 97.91% 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, Tallapoosa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Tallapoosa Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Tallapoosa with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 12.51% of adults in Tallapoosa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tallapoosa in 2000 was $15,302, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $61,208 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Tallapoosa is English.