Homer is a very small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,526 people and just one neighborhood, Homer is the 302nd largest community in Georgia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Homer, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Homer, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Homer’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Homer does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $73,542.00.
Unlike some towns, Homer isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Homer are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Homer is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Homer who work in sales jobs (16.15%), office and administrative support (14.73%), and management occupations (10.62%).
Also of interest is that Homer has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Homer, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.91 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Homer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Homer are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.96% of adults in Homer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Homer in 2022 was $30,296, 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 $121,184 for a family of four. However, Homer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Homer is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Homer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Homer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Homer include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, Welsh, and German.
The most common language spoken in Homer is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 Homer are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.2% 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, 35.4% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.
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 Homer, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.