Mountain City is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,415 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mountain City is the 198th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mountain City is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mountain City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountain City who work in management occupations (12.38%), sales jobs (11.86%), and maintenance occupations (11.20%). It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Mountain City 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. Mountain City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mountain City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mountain City may be for you. Mountain City is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Mountain City have a very low rate of college education: just 9.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Mountain City in 2022 was $22,866, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,464 for a family of four. However, Mountain City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mountain City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.84% of its population below the federal poverty line.Mountain City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mountain City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountain City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mountain City include German, English, Italian, Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Mountain City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
