Leary’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Leary 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. Leary has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leary than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leary may be for you.
For a small city, Leary has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Leary exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The population of Leary has a very low overall level of education: only 8.81% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Leary in 2022 was $25,110, 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 $100,440 for a family of four.
The people who call Leary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leary residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Leary include European, Scots-Irish, Irish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Leary is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and African languages.
