Tennessee Ridge is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,345 people and just one neighborhood, Tennessee Ridge is the 261st largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tennessee Ridge is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.98% of the Tennessee Ridge workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tennessee Ridge is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tennessee Ridge who work in sales jobs (10.58%), healthcare suport services (6.17%), and teaching (6.17%).
Also of interest is that Tennessee Ridge has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Tennessee Ridge is worth considering.
In Tennessee Ridge, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.73 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Tennessee Ridge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Tennessee Ridge who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.87% of the adults in Tennessee Ridge have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tennessee Ridge in 2022 was $27,573, 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 $110,292 for a family of four. However, Tennessee Ridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tennessee Ridge is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tennessee Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tennessee Ridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tennessee Ridge include Irish, English, German, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Tennessee Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic 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.
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 52.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.3% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (24.1%) than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Tennessee Ridge are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.2% 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 54.6% of America'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, 52.3% 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 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.8%), and 10.9% 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 98.6% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Tennessee Ridge, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (24.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.