Tallapoosa is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,201 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tallapoosa is the 207th largest community in Georgia.When you are in Tallapoosa, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.91% of Tallapoosa’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tallapoosa is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tallapoosa who work in office and administrative support (12.45%), sales jobs (11.19%), and maintenance occupations (6.05%). Also of interest is that Tallapoosa has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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, Tallapoosa has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Tallapoosa a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Tallapoosa is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Tallapoosa, the average commute to work is 32.63 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Tallapoosa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Tallapoosa are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.28% of adults in Tallapoosa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Tallapoosa in 2022 was $30,018, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,072 for a family of four. However, Tallapoosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tallapoosa is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tallapoosa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tallapoosa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tallapoosa include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Tallapoosa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
