Flovilla is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 683 people and just one neighborhood, Flovilla is the 374th largest community in Georgia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Flovilla is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.21% of the Flovilla workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Flovilla is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flovilla who work in food service (18.10%), office and administrative support (16.97%), and sales jobs (8.37%).
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!) Flovilla 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. Flovilla has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Flovilla than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Flovilla may be for you.
One downside of living in Flovilla, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.63 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, Flovilla doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Flovilla has a very low overall level of education: only 9.89% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Flovilla in 2022 was $25,994, 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 $103,976 for a family of four. However, Flovilla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Flovilla is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Flovilla home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flovilla residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Flovilla include Irish, English, Scottish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Flovilla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 Flovilla are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.5% 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, 32.6% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.0%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).
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 Flovilla, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.