Leary is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 497 people and two associated neighborhoods, Leary is the 396th largest community in Georgia.Leary is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Leary is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leary who work in sales jobs (17.71%), office and administrative support (15.63%), and healthcare (15.63%). Overall, Leary’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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!) Leary 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. Leary has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leary than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leary may be for you. One downside of living in Leary, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.86 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead. For a small city, Leary has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Leary exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.The percentage of people in Leary with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.50% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Leary in 2022 was $21,989, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,956 for a family of four. Leary is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leary residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Leary include English, Irish, Dutch, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian. The most common language spoken in Leary is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and African languages.
