Waverly is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,297 people and three associated neighborhoods, Waverly is the 134th largest community in Tennessee.Waverly is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Waverly is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Waverly who work in office and administrative support (14.65%), community and social services (10.51%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.33%). Also of interest is that Waverly 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!) Waverly 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. Waverly has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Waverly than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Waverly may be for you. One downside of living in Waverly is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Waverly, the average commute to work is 31.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Waverly does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Waverly is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.63% of adults 25 and older in Waverly have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Waverly in 2022 was $29,611, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,444 for a family of four. However, Waverly contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Waverly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waverly residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Waverly include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Hungarian. The most common language spoken in Waverly is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
