Poulan is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 726 people and just one neighborhood, Poulan is the 357th largest community in Georgia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Poulan is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.01% of the Poulan workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Poulan is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Poulan who work in office and administrative support (16.77%), sales jobs (10.78%), and business and financial occupations (6.29%).
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!) Poulan 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. Poulan has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Poulan than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Poulan may be for you.
Poulan is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Poulan has a very low overall level of education: only 8.81% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Poulan in 2022 was $24,978, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,912 for a family of four. However, Poulan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Poulan is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Poulan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Poulan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Poulan include English, Irish, European, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Poulan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Armenian and Italian.
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 96.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.5% 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.
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 26 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 7.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of America's neighborhoods.
Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Poulan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.0% 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, 40.0% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Poulan, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.