New Tazewell is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,803 people and two associated neighborhoods, New Tazewell is the 181st largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, New Tazewell is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 54.60% of the New Tazewell workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, New Tazewell is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Tazewell who work in food service (8.02%), sales jobs (7.87%), and community and social services (6.85%). 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!) New Tazewell 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. New Tazewell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Tazewell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Tazewell may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.21 minutes getting to work every day. As is often the case in a small town, New Tazewell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In New Tazewell, just 11.84% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in New Tazewell in 2022 was $26,395, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,580 for a family of four. However, New Tazewell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call New Tazewell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Tazewell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Tazewell include Irish, English, German, Polish, and French. The most common language spoken in New Tazewell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Other Asian languages.
