Blairsville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 785 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Blairsville is the 382nd largest community in Georgia.Blairsville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Blairsville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blairsville who work in office and administrative support (15.56%), law enforcement and fire fighting (14.79%), and sales jobs (10.89%). 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!) Blairsville 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. Blairsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Blairsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Blairsville may be for you. One of the benefits of Blairsville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.75 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Blairsville 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 Blairsville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.90% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Blairsville in 2022 was $23,106, 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 $92,424 for a family of four. Blairsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.Blairsville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Blairsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blairsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blairsville include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Blairsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
