Leary’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Leary has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Leary a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
For a small city, Leary has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Leary exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The citizens of Leary have a very low rate of college education: just 8.81% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Leary in 2022 was $25,110, 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 $100,440 for a family of four.
The people who call Leary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leary residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Leary include European, Scots-Irish, Irish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Leary is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and African languages.
