Tallapoosa is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 3,201 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tallapoosa is the 207th largest community in Georgia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tallapoosa is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.95% of the Tallapoosa workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tallapoosa is a city of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tallapoosa who work in sales jobs (8.09%), office and administrative support (7.77%), and maintenance occupations (6.25%). Of important note, Tallapoosa is also a city of artists. Tallapoosa has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Tallapoosa’s character. Also of interest is that Tallapoosa has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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, Tallapoosa has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Tallapoosa a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Tallapoosa, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.95 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small city, Tallapoosa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Tallapoosa, just 12.77% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Tallapoosa in 2022 was $24,872, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,488 for a family of four. However, Tallapoosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tallapoosa is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tallapoosa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tallapoosa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tallapoosa include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and German. The most common language spoken in Tallapoosa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
