Enigma is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,098 people and just one neighborhood, Enigma is the 315th largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Enigma, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 64.59% of Enigma’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Enigma is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Enigma who work in architecture and engineering (8.22%), office and administrative support (6.80%), and sales jobs (5.95%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Enigma 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. Enigma has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Enigma than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Enigma may be for you.
One downside of living in Enigma is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Enigma, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Enigma doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Enigma has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.25% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Enigma in 2022 was $14,111, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $56,444 for a family of four. Enigma also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.68% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Enigma is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Enigma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Enigma residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Enigma also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.59% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Enigma include Irish, French, German, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Enigma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 61.1% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.4% of America.
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 47.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.2% of American neighborhoods.
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 neighborhood in Enigma are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.4% 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, 47.4% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.4%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.7%).
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 Enigma, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (8.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.8%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.