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Shady Dale, GA

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Overview


Shady Dale is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 286 people and just one neighborhood, Shady Dale is the 460th largest community in Georgia. Much of the housing stock in Shady Dale was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Shady Dale economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Shady Dale, where the median household income is $81,250.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Shady Dale is a blue-collar town, with 61.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Shady Dale is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shady Dale who work in office and administrative support (10.00%), healthcare (10.00%), and management occupations (7.50%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Shady Dale is worth considering.

In Shady Dale, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Shady Dale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Shady Dale has a very low overall level of education: only 6.53% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Shady Dale in 2022 was $28,285, 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 $113,140 for a family of four. However, Shady Dale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Shady Dale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shady Dale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Shady Dale, accounting for 48.13% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Shady Dale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shady Dale include German, English, French, Irish, and Yugoslavian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Shady Dale's cultural character, accounting for 30.84% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Shady Dale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Shady Dale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.2% 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.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Shady Dale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% 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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.4%), and 20.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Shady Dale, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (31.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (6.6%) . 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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