Toone is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 269 people and just one neighborhood, Toone is the 371st largest community in Tennessee.
When you are in Toone, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.69% of Toone’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Toone is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Toone who work in office and administrative support (23.74%), healthcare suport services (12.95%), and management occupations (11.51%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Toone has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Toone a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Toone doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Toone has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.46% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Toone in 2022 was $16,372, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,488 for a family of four. However, Toone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Toone also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 49.87% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Toone is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Toone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toone residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toone include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Portuguese.
The most common language spoken in Toone is English. Other important languages spoken here include Hungarian and African languages.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 38.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of 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 Toone are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% 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, 37.1% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.4%), and 13.2% 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 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Toone, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.