Rutledge is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,331 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rutledge is the 262nd largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rutledge is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.20% of the Rutledge workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rutledge is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rutledge who work in food service (10.75%), office and administrative support (8.36%), and healthcare (7.51%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Rutledge has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Rutledge has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rutledge than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rutledge may be for you. Being a small town, Rutledge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Rutledge rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.49% of adults 25 and older in Rutledge have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Rutledge in 2022 was $28,087, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,348 for a family of four. However, Rutledge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Rutledge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rutledge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rutledge include Irish, English, German, European, and Belgian. The most common language spoken in Rutledge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
