Dewy Rose is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 161 people and just one neighborhood, Dewy Rose is the 483rd largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Dewy Rose, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 69.09% of Dewy Rose’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dewy Rose is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dewy Rose who work in sales jobs (10.30%), personal care services (7.88%), and teaching (7.27%).
The overall crime rate in Dewy Rose is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Dewy Rose has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dewy Rose a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Dewy Rose spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.14 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small town, Dewy Rose doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Dewy Rose has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dewy Rose in 2022 was $18,207, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,828 for a family of four.
Dewy Rose is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dewy Rose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dewy Rose residents report their race to be White. Dewy Rose also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.69% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dewy Rose include English, Scottish, Danish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Dewy Rose's cultural character, accounting for 35.69% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Dewy Rose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Dewy Rose, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American neighborhoods.
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 Dewy Rose are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.7% 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, 44.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 10.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).
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 Dewy Rose, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.3%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (17.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.