Ambrose is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 335 people and just one neighborhood, Ambrose is the 442nd largest community in Georgia.
The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Ambrose, employing 6.19% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Agriculture and Public Service industries employ 16.84% and 14.74% of the civilian workforce, respectively.
In addition, many people in Ambrose have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Overall, Ambrose’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Ambrose 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. Ambrose has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ambrose than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ambrose may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Ambrose doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Ambrose has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 1.52% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Ambrose in 2022 was $22,222, 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 $88,888 for a family of four. However, Ambrose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ambrose also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.08% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Ambrose is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ambrose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ambrose residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ambrose also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.69% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ambrose include Irish, German, Italian, Dutch, and British.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Ambrose's cultural character, accounting for 15.68% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Ambrose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ambrose are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.7% 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, 33.8% 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 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.2%), and 18.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.6%).
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 Ambrose, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (4.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.