About Winston

Winston is a somewhat small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 6,203 people and just one neighborhood, Winston is the 145th largest community in Georgia.

Winston is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Winston is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Winston who work in office and administrative support jobs (21.68%), management occupations (12.85%), and sales jobs (11.05%).

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

One downside of living in Winston is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Winston, the average commute to work is 35.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Winston 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 Winston, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.32% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Winston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Winston Information and Demographics

The education level of Winston citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 14.21% of adults 25 and older in Winston have a college degree.

The per capita income in Winston in 2000 was $24,317, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,268 for a family of four. However, Winston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Winston is English.