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Rabun Gap, GA

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Overview


Rabun Gap is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,246 people and just one neighborhood, Rabun Gap is the 251st largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rabun Gap isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rabun Gap are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rabun Gap is a town of managers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rabun Gap who work in management occupations (26.66%), maintenance occupations (12.85%), and office and administrative support (9.53%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.46% 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

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Rabun Gap spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.21 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small town, Rabun Gap does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Rabun Gap is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.02% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Rabun Gap in 2018 was $35,455, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,820 for a family of four. However, Rabun Gap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rabun Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rabun Gap residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rabun Gap include European, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Rabun Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Rabun Gap neighborhood.

In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 8.0% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Georgia, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Georgia.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.6%) than in 96.2% 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 Rabun Gap 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 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.6% 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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.2%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.

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 Rabun Gap, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (61.8%) 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 (23.6%) . 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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