Roberta is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 784 people and just one neighborhood, Roberta is the 349th largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Roberta, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.39% of Roberta’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Roberta is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Roberta who work in food service (17.27%), office and administrative support (6.06%), and sales jobs (5.76%).
Roberta 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.
In Roberta, just 9.44% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Roberta in 2022 was $18,875, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,500 for a family of four. However, Roberta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Roberta also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.16% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Roberta is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Roberta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Roberta residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Roberta include English, German, Irish, European, and African.
The most common language spoken in Roberta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Roberta, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
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 34.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) living in the neighborhood.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.3% of America.
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 Roberta are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.5% 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, 39.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.6%), and 14.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Roberta, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.3%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report African roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (30.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.7%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.