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Hoboken, GA

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Overview


Hoboken is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 481 people and just one neighborhood, Hoboken is the 403rd largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Hoboken is a blue-collar town, with 46.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hoboken is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hoboken who work in sales jobs (28.69%), office and administrative support (8.14%), and maintenance occupations (4.07%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Hoboken’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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!) Hoboken 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. Hoboken has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hoboken than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hoboken may be for you.

Being a small city, Hoboken does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Hoboken ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.37% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hoboken in 2022 was $26,926, 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 $107,704 for a family of four. However, Hoboken contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hoboken home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hoboken residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hoboken include English, German, Irish, European, and Portuguese.

The most common language spoken in Hoboken is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 50.9% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.1% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 37 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Hoboken are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 72.2% of America'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, 44.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.2%), and 8.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Hoboken, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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