McDonald is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 586 people and two associated neighborhoods, McDonald is the 325th largest community in Tennessee. McDonald has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McDonald is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.13% of the McDonald workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McDonald is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McDonald who work in sales jobs (18.13%), healthcare (15.66%), and maintenance occupations (7.97%). Also of interest is that McDonald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. McDonald is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in McDonald enrolled in college, McDonald has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students. 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, McDonald has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McDonald a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, McDonald does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of McDonald citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.07% of adults in McDonald have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in McDonald in 2022 was $32,087, 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 $128,348 for a family of four. However, McDonald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McDonald is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McDonald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McDonald residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McDonald include Scots-Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in McDonald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Langs. of India.
