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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

When you are in Aragon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.68% of Aragon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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

The overall crime rate in Aragon is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

In Aragon, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.69 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Aragon 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

Aragon ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.16% of people over 25 have a college degree.

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

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.6% 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 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

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 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.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

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

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 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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