About Tyrone

Tyrone is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,865 people and just one neighborhood, Tyrone is the 193rd largest community in Georgia.

Tyrone is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tyrone is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tyrone who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.98%), management occupations (13.44%), and teaching (7.25%).

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

Tyrone is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Tyrone 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, Tyrone doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Tyrone Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Tyrone 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: 30.39% of adults in Tyrone have a college degree.

The per capita income in Tyrone in 2000 was $26,463, which is wealthy relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,852 for a family of four. However, Tyrone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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