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.Tellico Plains is a blue-collar town, with 35.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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%). 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, Tellico Plains has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Tellico Plains a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Tellico Plains is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Tellico Plains, the average commute to work is 30.87 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Tellico Plains does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.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.
