Cowan is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,770 people and just one neighborhood, Cowan is the 234th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cowan is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.01% of the Cowan workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cowan is a city of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cowan who work in office and administrative support (8.55%), business and financial occupations (8.03%), and sales jobs (6.98%).
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!) Cowan 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. Cowan has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cowan than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cowan may be for you.
Being a small city, Cowan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Cowan is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.75% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cowan in 2022 was $19,627, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,508 for a family of four. However, Cowan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cowan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.72% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cowan is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cowan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cowan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cowan include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Cowan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cowan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 44.4% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.0%), and 13.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 Cowan, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (4.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% 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 (13.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.