Hardwick is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,513 people and just one neighborhood, Hardwick is the 194th largest community in Georgia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hardwick is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hardwick is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hardwick who work in office and administrative support (13.14%), sales jobs (12.38%), and personal care services (9.18%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Hardwick 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. Hardwick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hardwick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hardwick may be for you.
Hardwick is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Hardwick, just 9.45% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hardwick in 2022 was $24,968, 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 $99,872 for a family of four. Hardwick also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.93% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Hardwick is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hardwick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hardwick residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Hardwick include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Liberian.
The most common language spoken in Hardwick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese and Other Asian languages.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Hardwick are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.7% 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.
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, 34.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.9%), and 13.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 Hardwick, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.2%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.1%) 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.