Mascot is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,760 people and just one neighborhood, Mascot is the 182nd largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mascot, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Mascot, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mascot’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mascot does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $53,663.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mascot is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.14% of the Mascot workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mascot is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mascot who work in healthcare (14.35%), sales jobs (10.44%), and office and administrative support (10.30%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Mascot is worth considering.
Being a small town, Mascot does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Mascot rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.41% of adults 25 and older in Mascot have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Mascot in 2022 was $27,989, 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 $111,956 for a family of four. However, Mascot contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mascot is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mascot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mascot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mascot also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mascot include Irish, German, Dutch, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mascot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
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 Mascot are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.7% of America'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, 35.7% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.5%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Mascot, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (40.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.