Resaca is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,149 people and just one neighborhood, Resaca is the 311th largest community in Georgia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Resaca, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Resaca, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Resaca’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Resaca does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $56,154.00.
Resaca is a blue-collar town, with 61.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Resaca is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Resaca who work in sales jobs (9.70%), maintenance occupations (8.21%), and management occupations (6.72%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Resaca has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Resaca a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Resaca 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.
The population of Resaca has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.83% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Resaca in 2022 was $26,310, 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 $105,240 for a family of four. However, Resaca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Resaca is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Resaca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Resaca residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Resaca also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.92% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Resaca include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Resaca is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Resaca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.8% 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 51.2% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 16.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).
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 Resaca, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 (53.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.