Cohutta is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 848 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cohutta is the 356th largest community in Georgia.Unlike some cities, Cohutta isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cohutta are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cohutta is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cohutta who work in office and administrative support (15.70%), healthcare (14.18%), and business and financial occupations (11.65%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.86% 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!) Cohutta 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. Cohutta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cohutta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cohutta may be for you. In Cohutta, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.34 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Cohutta doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of adults in Cohutta who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.08% of the adults in Cohutta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Cohutta in 2022 was $33,841, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,364 for a family of four. However, Cohutta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Cohutta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cohutta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cohutta include English, Irish, German, Canadian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Cohutta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
