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Toomsboro, GA

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Overview


Toomsboro is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 373 people and just one neighborhood, Toomsboro is the 425th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Toomsboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.39% of Toomsboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Toomsboro is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toomsboro who work in healthcare suport services (24.91%), office and administrative support (7.85%), and food service (7.17%).

Also of interest is that Toomsboro has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.53% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

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!) Toomsboro 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. Toomsboro has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Toomsboro than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Toomsboro may be for you.

Toomsboro 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 Toomsboro has a very low overall level of education: only 6.30% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Toomsboro in 2018 was $23,896, 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 $95,584 for a family of four. However, Toomsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Toomsboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Toomsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toomsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toomsboro include English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.4% of America.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish 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 Toomsboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 43.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.7%), and 13.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Toomsboro, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report German roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.2%).

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 (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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