Dearing is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 529 people and just one neighborhood, Dearing is the 393rd largest community in Georgia.
Unlike some towns, Dearing isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dearing are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dearing is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dearing who work in teaching (14.43%), sales jobs (14.10%), and office and administrative support (12.46%).
Also of interest is that Dearing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Dearing is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dearing, the average commute to work is 30.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Dearing doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Dearing citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.42% of adults in Dearing have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Dearing in 2022 was $24,303, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,212 for a family of four. However, Dearing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dearing is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dearing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dearing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dearing include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Dearing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Dearing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.2% 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 neighborhood, 30.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.4%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% 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 Dearing, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report English roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (42.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.