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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College median real estate price is $229,102, which is less expensive than 72.7% of Georgia neighborhoods and 73.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College is currently $1,466, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 79.6% of Georgia neighborhoods.

Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Toccoa, Georgia.

Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College has a 12.1% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 69.8% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

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

Occupations

The Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 97.6% of all American neighborhoods.

People

An extraordinary 20.8% of the residents of the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.

In addition, of particular note, 4.0% of the people in the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Also, one of the unique characteristics of the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 12.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

More people in Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College choose to walk to work each day (12.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Also, would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer. But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood is a fantastic option for bicycle commuters, as 2.7% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood has more English and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 2.0% have Greek ancestry.

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 Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood in Toccoa are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.9% of U.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 Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood, 42.0% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (19.7%), and 18.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).

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 Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood in Toccoa, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 Toccoa Falls / Toccoa Falls College neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (12.3%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (66.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (12.4%) and 8.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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