Toomsboro is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 373 people and just one neighborhood, Toomsboro is the 425th largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Toomsboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.39% of Toomsboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Toomsboro is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toomsboro who work in healthcare suport services (24.91%), office and administrative support (7.85%), and food service (7.17%).
Also of interest is that Toomsboro has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Toomsboro telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.53% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
The city 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, Toomsboro has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Toomsboro a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Toomsboro is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Toomsboro, just 6.30% 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 Toomsboro in 2022 was $23,896, 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 $95,584 for a family of four. However, Toomsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Toomsboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Toomsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toomsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toomsboro include English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Toomsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.4% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry.
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 Toomsboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.0% of U.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, 43.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.7%), and 13.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.
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 Toomsboro, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report German roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.2%).
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 (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.