McRae-Helena is a somewhat small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 6,211 people and three associated neighborhoods, McRae-Helena is the 135th largest community in Georgia.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.72% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

One of the benefits of McRae-Helena is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.00 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small city, McRae-Helena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of McRae-Helena have a very low rate of college education: just 7.35% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in McRae-Helena in 2022 was $12,592, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $50,368 for a family of four. However, McRae-Helena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McRae-Helena also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.09% of its population below the federal poverty line.

McRae-Helena is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McRae-Helena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McRae-Helena residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. McRae-Helena also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McRae-Helena include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, German, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in McRae-Helena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.