Overview Abbeville is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 2,844 people and just one neighborhood, Abbeville is the 230th largest community in Georgia. Occupations and Workforce Abbeville is a blue-collar town, with 55.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Abbeville is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Abbeville who work in healthcare suport services (9.14%), management occupations (5.08%), and maintenance occupations (4.31%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.00% 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. Setting & Lifestyle Abbeville鈥檚 overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. 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, Abbeville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Abbeville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Abbeville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.57 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Abbeville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute. Abbeville Demographics The population of Abbeville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.97% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Abbeville in 2022 was $7,519, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $30,076 for a family of four. However, Abbeville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Abbeville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.23% of its population below the federal poverty line. Abbeville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Abbeville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Abbeville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Abbeville include Irish, African, English, Italian, and German. The most common language spoken in Abbeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.