Valdosta is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Valdosta enrolled in college, Valdosta has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Not only is Valdosta a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Valdosta is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Valdosta a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
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 18.27 minutes getting to work every day.
In terms of college education, Valdosta is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.06% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Valdosta in 2022 was $26,206, 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 $104,824 for a family of four. However, Valdosta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Valdosta is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Valdosta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Valdosta residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Valdosta include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Valdosta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
