Webster County is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Webster County enrolled in college, Webster County has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
The overall crime rate in Webster County is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The town 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, Webster County has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Webster County a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Webster County, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The rate of college-level education in Webster County is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.34% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Webster County in 2022 was $25,407, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,628 for a family of four. However, Webster County contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Webster County is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Webster County home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Webster County residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Webster County include English, German, Irish, African, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Webster County is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
