McRae-Helena is a somewhat small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 6,211 people and three associated neighborhoods, McRae-Helena is the 135th largest community in Georgia.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.72% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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 18.00 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, McRae-Helena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In McRae-Helena, just 7.35% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in McRae-Helena in 2022 was $12,592, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $50,368 for a family of four. However, McRae-Helena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McRae-Helena also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.09% of its population below the federal poverty line.
McRae-Helena is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McRae-Helena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McRae-Helena residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. McRae-Helena also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McRae-Helena include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in McRae-Helena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.