Whitwell is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,621 people and two associated neighborhoods, Whitwell is the 242nd largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Whitwell is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Whitwell is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitwell who work in sales jobs (19.73%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.31%), and maintenance occupations (7.06%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.49% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Whitwell 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. Whitwell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Whitwell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Whitwell may be for you. One downside of living in Whitwell, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 43.66 minutes every day commuting to work. As is often the case in a small city, Whitwell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Whitwell, just 7.05% 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 Whitwell in 2022 was $27,642, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,568 for a family of four. However, Whitwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Whitwell is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Whitwell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whitwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Whitwell include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and British. The most common language spoken in Whitwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
