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Kingston, GA

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Overview


Kingston is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 742 people and just one neighborhood, Kingston is the 362nd largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Kingston is a blue-collar town, with 64.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kingston is a city of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kingston who work in food service (8.06%), sales jobs (6.94%), and management occupations (5.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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, Kingston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Kingston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Kingston, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.51 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Kingston ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 1.73% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kingston in 2018 was $19,434, 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 $77,736 for a family of four. However, Kingston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Kingston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Kingston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% 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, 38.7% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Kingston, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (14.7%) . 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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