Eatonton is a somewhat small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 6,641 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Eatonton is the 133rd largest community in Georgia.Eatonton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Eatonton is a city of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eatonton who work in teaching (10.01%), maintenance occupations (7.41%), and computer science and math (7.34%). Also of interest is that Eatonton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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, Eatonton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Eatonton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.The percentage of adults in Eatonton who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.36% of the adults in Eatonton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Eatonton in 2022 was $36,658, 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 $146,632 for a family of four. However, Eatonton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Eatonton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eatonton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eatonton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Eatonton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.80% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Eatonton include English, Irish, German, Russian, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Eatonton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Japanese.
