Spencer is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,539 people and two associated neighborhoods, Spencer is the 253rd largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Spencer is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.90% of the Spencer workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Spencer is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spencer who work in healthcare suport services (12.01%), maintenance occupations (8.07%), and sales jobs (7.69%). Overall, Spencer’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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, Spencer has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spencer a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Spencer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Spencer, just 6.69% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Spencer in 2022 was $21,210, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,840 for a family of four. However, Spencer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Spencer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spencer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spencer include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Spencer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian languages.
