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Census tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). Census tracts usually have 4,000 persons, but can range between 1,500 and 8,000 persons. This is the most fine-grained area for which detailed information is made available from the government, to protect the individual privacy of each of us. Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas.
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Auburntown is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 281 people and just one neighborhood, Auburntown is the 370th largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
Auburntown is a blue-collar town, with 35.67% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Auburntown is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Auburntown who work in office and administrative support (15.79%), teaching (9.36%), and business and financial occupations (7.02%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Auburntown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Auburntown 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. Auburntown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Auburntown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Auburntown may be for you.
In Auburntown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.45 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Auburntown is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Auburntown, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.01% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Demographics
The population of Auburntown 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 Auburntown, 22.75% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Auburntown in 2022 was $32,102, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,408 for a family of four. However, Auburntown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Auburntown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Auburntown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Auburntown include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Auburntown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Auburntown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.
Car Ownership
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.
The Neighbors
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 Auburntown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 33.7% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.5%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Auburntown, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
