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.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tallapoosa is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.91% of the Tallapoosa workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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. 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!) Tallapoosa 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. Tallapoosa has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tallapoosa than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tallapoosa may be for you. In Tallapoosa, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.63 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly 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 percentage of adults in Tallapoosa with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 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.
