Fairmount is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 765 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fairmount is the 352nd largest community in Georgia.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fairmount is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fairmount is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fairmount who work in maintenance occupations (15.79%), law enforcement and fire fighting (13.84%), and sales jobs (8.97%). The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fairmount has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fairmount a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Fairmount, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.10 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small city, Fairmount does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Fairmount, just 11.09% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Fairmount in 2022 was $26,221, 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 $104,884 for a family of four. However, Fairmount contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fairmount is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fairmount home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fairmount residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fairmount include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and European. The most common language spoken in Fairmount is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
