Blairsville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 849 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Blairsville is the 382nd largest community in Georgia.When you are in Blairsville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.58% of Blairsville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Blairsville is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blairsville who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (17.49%), sales jobs (10.23%), and office and administrative support (9.24%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.92% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. 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. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Blairsville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 13.12 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be. As is often the case in a small city, Blairsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Blairsville, just 6.70% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Blairsville in 2022 was $25,027, 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 $100,108 for a family of four. Blairsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.18% 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, German, Russian, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Blairsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
