Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 13.57 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Blairsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Blairsville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Blairsville in 2022 was $23,657, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,628 for a family of four. However, Blairsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Blairsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.42% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Blairsville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Blairsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blairsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Blairsville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.22% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Blairsville include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Blairsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
