Georgetown is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 28,230 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Georgetown is the 90th largest community in Texas.

Georgetown is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Georgetown is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Georgetown who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.36%), sales jobs (10.72%), and management occupations (10.63%).

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

Because of many things, Georgetown is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Georgetown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Georgetown perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

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

Georgetown Information and Demographics

The citizens of Georgetown are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.64% of adults in Georgetown have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Georgetown in 2000 was $24,287, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,148 for a family of four.

Georgetown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Georgetown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Georgetown is White, followed by African-American. Georgetown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.85% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Georgetown include German, English, Irish, and Scotch-Irish.

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