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Plainville, GA

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Overview


Plainville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 355 people and just one neighborhood, Plainville is the 433rd largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Plainville is a blue-collar town, with 46.90% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Plainville is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Plainville who work in sales jobs (29.66%), office and administrative support (6.90%), and food service (4.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Plainville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Plainville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Plainville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Plainville may be for you.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.65 minutes getting to work every day.

Plainville is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Plainville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.24% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Plainville 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 population of Plainville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.42% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Plainville in 2018 was $19,646, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,584 for a family of four.

Plainville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Plainville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plainville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Plainville include English, Irish, Italian, German, and European.

In addition, Plainville has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.88%).

The most common language spoken in Plainville is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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 Plainville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav 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 Plainville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% 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, 37.2% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 11.7% 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 91.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Plainville, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (42.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.6%) 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 (5.1%) . 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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