Sparta is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,915 people and five associated neighborhoods, Sparta is the 118th largest community in Tennessee.Sparta is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sparta is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sparta who work in office and administrative support (15.92%), food service (9.67%), and management occupations (9.37%). There are many members of the armed forces living in Sparta. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform. Also of interest is that Sparta has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Sparta 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. Sparta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sparta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sparta may be for you. Sparta is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Sparta with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.21% of adults in Sparta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Sparta in 2022 was $27,685, 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 $110,740 for a family of four. However, Sparta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Sparta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sparta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sparta include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Sparta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
