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Hagan, GA

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Overview


Hagan is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 941 people and just one neighborhood, Hagan is the 329th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hagan is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.65% of the Hagan workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hagan is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hagan who work in healthcare (10.37%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.53%), and food service (7.86%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Hagan’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Hagan is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Hagan are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.65% of adults in Hagan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Hagan in 2018 was $23,125, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,500 for a family of four. However, Hagan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hagan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.96% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Hagan is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hagan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hagan residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Hagan include Irish, English, African, German, and French.

The most common language spoken in Hagan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

If you are planning to retire in Georgia, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Georgia, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.2% of neighborhoods in GA. If a Georgia retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hagan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 32.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Hagan, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.6%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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