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Flovilla, GA

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Overview


Flovilla is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 672 people and just one neighborhood, Flovilla is the 374th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Flovilla is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.20% of the Flovilla workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Flovilla is a city of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flovilla who work in office and administrative support (13.70%), management occupations (12.10%), and business and financial occupations (6.16%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Flovilla has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Flovilla a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Flovilla, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.30 minutes every day commuting to work.

Flovilla 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 Flovilla have a very low rate of college education: just 8.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Flovilla in 2018 was $25,802, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,208 for a family of four. However, Flovilla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Flovilla is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in GA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.5% of the neighborhoods in Georgia. If you are considering retiring to Georgia, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Flovilla are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.0% 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, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.8%), and 7.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).

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 Flovilla, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report German roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (13.5%) . 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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