Chattahoochee Hills is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,252 people and just one neighborhood, Chattahoochee Hills is the 216th largest community in Georgia.
Chattahoochee Hills home prices are not only among the most expensive in Georgia, but Chattahoochee Hills real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Unlike some cities, Chattahoochee Hills isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chattahoochee Hills are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chattahoochee Hills is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chattahoochee Hills who work in teaching (16.47%), art, media, and design (12.65%), and management occupations (11.14%).
Of important note, Chattahoochee Hills is also a city of artists. Chattahoochee Hills has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Chattahoochee Hills’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 26.89% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Chattahoochee Hills has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chattahoochee Hills a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Chattahoochee Hills, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.95 minutes every day commuting to work.
Chattahoochee Hills 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 citizens of Chattahoochee Hills are among the most well-educated in the nation: 48.10% of adults in Chattahoochee Hills have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Chattahoochee Hills in 2022 was $73,333, which is wealthy relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $293,332 for a family of four. However, Chattahoochee Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Chattahoochee Hills is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Chattahoochee Hills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chattahoochee Hills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Chattahoochee Hills also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.09% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Chattahoochee Hills include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Chattahoochee Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 Chattahoochee Hills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.3% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Georgia, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Georgia.
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 Chattahoochee Hills are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.5% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 56.4% 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 22.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.5%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.9%).
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 Chattahoochee Hills, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (32.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (74.6%) 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.