Mansfield is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 494 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mansfield is the 413th largest community in Georgia. Mansfield has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
A relatively large number of people in Mansfield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.95% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Mansfield’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Mansfield 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. Mansfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mansfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mansfield may be for you.
In Mansfield, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Mansfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Mansfield who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.92% of the adults in Mansfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mansfield in 2022 was $39,244, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,976 for a family of four. However, Mansfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mansfield is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mansfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mansfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mansfield include English, German, Irish, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mansfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.