LaFayette is a somewhat small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 7,028 people and six associated neighborhoods, LaFayette is the 125th largest community in Georgia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, LaFayette is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.05% of the LaFayette workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, LaFayette is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in LaFayette who work in sales jobs (12.81%), management occupations (10.74%), and office and administrative support (10.46%). A relatively large number of people in LaFayette telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.14% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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!) LaFayette 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. LaFayette has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in LaFayette than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, LaFayette may be for you. Being a small city, LaFayette does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in LaFayette with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.14% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in LaFayette in 2022 was $23,992, 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 $95,968 for a family of four. However, LaFayette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. LaFayette is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call LaFayette home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of LaFayette residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in LaFayette include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in LaFayette is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Spanish.
