Tellico Plains is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 770 people and three associated neighborhoods, Tellico Plains is the 305th largest community in Tennessee.When you are in Tellico Plains, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.33% of Tellico Plains’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tellico Plains is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tellico Plains who work in office and administrative support (13.63%), management occupations (10.85%), and maintenance occupations (6.93%). 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!) Tellico Plains 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. Tellico Plains has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tellico Plains than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tellico Plains may be for you. One downside of living in Tellico Plains, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.87 minutes every day commuting to work. Tellico Plains 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.In terms of college education, the citizens of Tellico Plains rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.59% of adults 25 and older in Tellico Plains have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Tellico Plains in 2022 was $19,419, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,676 for a family of four. However, Tellico Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tellico Plains also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.67% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Tellico Plains home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tellico Plains residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Tellico Plains include Irish, English, German, Greek, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Tellico Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
