Crawford - Lexington is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,650 people and just one neighborhood, Crawford - Lexington is the 241st largest community in Georgia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Crawford - Lexington is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Crawford - Lexington is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crawford - Lexington who work in teaching (13.88%), healthcare (11.57%), and management occupations (10.17%).
One downside of living in Crawford - Lexington is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Crawford - Lexington, the average commute to work is 35.32 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Crawford - Lexington is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Crawford - Lexington is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.35% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Crawford - Lexington in 2022 was $31,625, 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 $126,500 for a family of four. However, Crawford - Lexington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Crawford - Lexington is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Crawford - Lexington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crawford - Lexington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Crawford - Lexington include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African.
The most common language spoken in Crawford - Lexington is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Crawford - Lexington is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in GA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.6% of the neighborhoods in Georgia. If you are considering retiring to Georgia, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.5% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Crawford - Lexington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 43.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Crawford - Lexington, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.