Blackshear is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,583 people and four associated neighborhoods, Blackshear is the 196th largest community in Georgia.Blackshear is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Blackshear is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Blackshear who work in office and administrative support (23.55%), sales jobs (9.73%), and teaching (8.37%). 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, Blackshear has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blackshear a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Blackshear does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Blackshear is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.52% of adults 25 and older in Blackshear have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Blackshear in 2022 was $27,714, 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 $110,856 for a family of four. However, Blackshear contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Blackshear is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Blackshear home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blackshear residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blackshear include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and British. The most common language spoken in Blackshear is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
