Ardmore - Elkton is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,065 people and just one neighborhood, Ardmore - Elkton is the 173rd largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ardmore - Elkton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ardmore - Elkton is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ardmore - Elkton who work in management occupations (16.79%), office and administrative support (8.44%), and healthcare suport services (7.70%).
Also of interest is that Ardmore - Elkton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 21.14% 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.
In Ardmore - Elkton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Ardmore - Elkton 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.
The population of Ardmore - Elkton overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Ardmore - Elkton, 23.30% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Ardmore - Elkton in 2022 was $30,785, 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 $123,140 for a family of four. However, Ardmore - Elkton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ardmore - Elkton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ardmore - Elkton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ardmore - Elkton include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Ardmore - Elkton is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ardmore - Elkton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 14.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Ardmore - Elkton, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (67.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.