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Rydal, GA

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Overview


Rydal is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,799 people and just one neighborhood, Rydal is the 275th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rydal isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rydal are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rydal is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rydal who work in office and administrative support (14.50%), management occupations (10.98%), and healthcare (8.94%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

In Rydal, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.91 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Rydal overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Rydal, 21.21% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Rydal in 2018 was $31,277, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,108 for a family of four. However, Rydal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Rydal is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Rydal are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.5% of America'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, 33.1% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 19.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% 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 Rydal, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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