Sylvania is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,602 people and four associated neighborhoods, Sylvania is the 235th largest community in Georgia.When you are in Sylvania, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.57% of Sylvania’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sylvania is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sylvania who work in maintenance occupations (12.86%), sales jobs (6.95%), and management occupations (6.48%). 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, Sylvania has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sylvania a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Sylvania is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sylvania, the average commute to work is 31.36 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Sylvania does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Sylvania are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.55% of adults in Sylvania have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Sylvania in 2022 was $23,998, 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 $95,992 for a family of four. However, Sylvania contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sylvania is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sylvania home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sylvania residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Sylvania include English, Irish, German, Polish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Sylvania is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
