Spencer is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,520 people and two associated neighborhoods, Spencer is the 253rd largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Spencer is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.90% of the Spencer workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Spencer is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spencer who work in healthcare suport services (12.01%), maintenance occupations (8.07%), and sales jobs (7.69%). The overall crime rate in Spencer is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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!) Spencer 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. Spencer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Spencer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Spencer may be for you. Being a small town, Spencer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Spencer, just 6.69% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Spencer in 2022 was $21,210, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,840 for a family of four. However, Spencer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Spencer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spencer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spencer include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Spencer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian languages.
