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Eton, GA

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Overview


Eton is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 836 people and just one neighborhood, Eton is the 348th largest community in Georgia. Eton has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Eton, where the median household income is $85,313.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.36% of the Eton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eton is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eton who work in maintenance occupations (11.29%), sales jobs (8.54%), and office and administrative support (7.96%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.57% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Eton 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

In Eton, just 10.32% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Eton in 2018 was $22,706, 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 $90,824 for a family of four. However, Eton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Eton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Eton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.90% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Eton include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and European.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Eton's cultural character, accounting for 27.13% of the city’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.3% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.5% have Cuban ancestry.

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 Eton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 49.8% 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 22.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.8%).

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 Eton, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Asian roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban ancestry (3.5%), along with some South American ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 16.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (13.2%) . 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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