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Nicholson, GA

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Overview


Nicholson is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,850 people and just one neighborhood, Nicholson is the 271st largest community in Georgia. Nicholson 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 Nicholson, where the median household income is $50,000.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Nicholson is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Nicholson is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nicholson who work in maintenance occupations (13.96%), sales jobs (12.81%), and management occupations (9.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Nicholson is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Nicholson with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.64% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Nicholson in 2018 was $21,218, 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 $84,872 for a family of four. However, Nicholson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Nicholson is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nicholson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nicholson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Nicholson also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.37% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Nicholson include English, German, Irish, French, and Swedish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Nicholson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.2% 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, 34.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.6%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 89.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Nicholson, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.8%) 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 (19.5%) . 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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