Tallapoosa is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,281 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tallapoosa is the 207th largest community in Georgia.When you are in Tallapoosa, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.95% of Tallapoosa’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tallapoosa is a city of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tallapoosa who work in sales jobs (8.09%), office and administrative support (7.77%), and maintenance occupations (6.25%). Of important note, Tallapoosa is also a city of artists. Tallapoosa has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Tallapoosa’s character. Also of interest is that Tallapoosa has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Tallapoosa 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. Tallapoosa has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tallapoosa than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tallapoosa may be for you. In Tallapoosa, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.95 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small city, Tallapoosa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Tallapoosa is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.77% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Tallapoosa in 2022 was $24,872, 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 $99,488 for a family of four. However, Tallapoosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tallapoosa is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tallapoosa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tallapoosa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tallapoosa include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and German. The most common language spoken in Tallapoosa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
