Canon is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 690 people and just one neighborhood, Canon is the 374th largest community in Georgia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Canon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.37% of the Canon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Canon is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Canon who work in management occupations (11.53%), office and administrative support (10.85%), and maintenance occupations (10.51%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Canon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Canon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Canon, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.89 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Canon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Canon has a very low overall level of education: only 6.74% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Canon in 2022 was $21,255, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,020 for a family of four. However, Canon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Canon also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.49% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Canon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Canon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Canon include Irish, English, Czechoslovakian, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Canon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.6% 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.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.1%) than found in 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
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 Canon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.1% 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, 39.6% 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 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
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 Canon, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Czechoslovakian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.2%) 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 (21.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.