Farner is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 267 people and just one neighborhood, Farner is the 372nd largest community in Tennessee. Farner has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Farner is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Farner is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Farner who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (26.09%), maintenance occupations (23.19%), and food service (17.39%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.14% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The overall crime rate in Farner is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Farner 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. Farner has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Farner than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Farner may be for you.
One downside of living in Farner is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Farner, the average commute to work is 35.81 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Farner doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Farner are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.92% of adults in Farner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Farner in 2022 was $19,853, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,412 for a family of four. Farner also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.10% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Farner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Farner residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Farner include Northern European, Irish, English, Scottish, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Farner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Farner are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (27.2%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.5%).
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 Farner, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.