Bruceton - Hollow Rock is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,309 people and just one neighborhood, Bruceton - Hollow Rock is the 135th largest community in Tennessee.
Bruceton - Hollow Rock is a blue-collar town, with 37.57% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bruceton - Hollow Rock is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruceton - Hollow Rock who work in food service (10.71%), office and administrative support (9.24%), and sales jobs (8.48%).
Bruceton - Hollow Rock is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Bruceton - Hollow Rock are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.90% of adults in Bruceton - Hollow Rock have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Bruceton - Hollow Rock in 2022 was $28,348, 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 $113,392 for a family of four. However, Bruceton - Hollow Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bruceton - Hollow Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bruceton - Hollow Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bruceton - Hollow Rock include English, German, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Bruceton - Hollow Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bruceton - Hollow Rock, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bruceton - Hollow Rock are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.2%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Bruceton - Hollow Rock, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%).
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (20.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.