Mount Airy is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,446 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Airy is the 296th largest community in Georgia. Much of the housing stock in Mount Airy was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Mount Airy economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Mount Airy, where the median household income is $72,981.00.
Mount Airy is a blue-collar town, with 49.51% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mount Airy is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Airy who work in office and administrative support (9.15%), food service (8.82%), and sales jobs (8.66%).
Also of interest is that Mount Airy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Mount Airy 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.
The percentage of people in Mount Airy with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.94% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Airy in 2022 was $21,939, 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 $87,756 for a family of four. However, Mount Airy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Airy is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Airy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Airy residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Mount Airy also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 44.43% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Airy include English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, and British.
The most common language spoken in Mount Airy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.
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 Mount Airy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.2% of the neighborhoods in GA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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 Mount Airy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.4% 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, 33.0% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.6%).
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 Mount Airy, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 13.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (13.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.