New Johnsonville is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,806 people and just one neighborhood, New Johnsonville is the 229th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, New Johnsonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.05% of the New Johnsonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, New Johnsonville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Johnsonville who work in office and administrative support (10.29%), management occupations (6.38%), and sales jobs (6.26%).
As is often the case in a small city, New Johnsonville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In New Johnsonville, just 11.50% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Johnsonville in 2022 was $31,712, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,848 for a family of four. However, New Johnsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Johnsonville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Johnsonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Johnsonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Johnsonville include English, Irish, German, European, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in New Johnsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.8% of the neighborhoods in TN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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 New Johnsonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.3% 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, 39.7% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 18.0% 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 98.2% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in New Johnsonville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report German roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.