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Axson, GA

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Overview


Axson is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 360 people and just one neighborhood, Axson is the 432nd largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Axson is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 95.43% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Axson is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Axson who work in community and social services (29.95%), business and financial occupations (28.93%), and teaching (24.87%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Axson is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Axson is worth considering.

Axson 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.

Demographics

The education level of Axson ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Axson, 40.66% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Axson in 2022 was $25,128, 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 $100,512 for a family of four. However, Axson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Axson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.90% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Axson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Axson 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 Axson, accounting for 63.25% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Axson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Axson include German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

Axson also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.81%.

The most common language spoken in Axson is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and West Germanic languages.

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

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 53.5% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (53.7%) than found in 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Axson is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in GA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in Georgia. If you are considering retiring to Georgia, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Axson are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 53.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.3% 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, 42.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.4%), and 6.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Axson, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (28.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 17.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.9%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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