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!) Quitman 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. Quitman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Quitman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Quitman may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.92 minutes getting to work every day.
Quitman is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Quitman is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.25% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Quitman in 2022 was $27,583, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,332 for a family of four. However, Quitman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Quitman also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.23% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Quitman is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Quitman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Quitman residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Quitman include German, French, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Quitman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
