Crossville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 12,470 people and 15 associated neighborhoods, Crossville is the 53rd largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Crossville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.12% of the Crossville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Crossville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crossville who work in office and administrative support (12.52%), sales jobs (10.96%), and food service (10.18%). It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Crossville 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. Crossville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Crossville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Crossville may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Crossville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.76 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be. Crossville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Crossville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.39% of the adults in Crossville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Crossville in 2022 was $26,240, 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 $104,960 for a family of four. However, Crossville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Crossville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Crossville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crossville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Crossville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Crossville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
