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Aragon, GA

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Overview


Aragon is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,476 people and just one neighborhood, Aragon is the 292nd largest community in Georgia. Aragon has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Aragon is a blue-collar town, with 50.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Aragon is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Aragon who work in office and administrative support (16.33%), food service (7.82%), and healthcare (6.12%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Aragon’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Aragon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.69 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Aragon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Aragon has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.16% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Aragon in 2022 was $20,511, 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 $82,044 for a family of four. However, Aragon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Aragon 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 Aragon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English 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 Aragon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% 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, 42.3% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.2%), and 16.4% 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 99.7% 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 Aragon, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report German roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (1.4%).

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (7.6%) . 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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