Beechgrove is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,107 people and just one neighborhood, Beechgrove is the 221st largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Beechgrove is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Beechgrove is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Beechgrove who work in teaching (11.09%), office and administrative support (10.64%), and management occupations (10.20%).
A relatively large number of people in Beechgrove telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.14% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 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!) Beechgrove 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. Beechgrove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beechgrove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beechgrove may be for you.
One downside of living in Beechgrove, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.36 minutes every day commuting to work.
Beechgrove 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, Beechgrove is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.57% of adults 25 and older in Beechgrove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Beechgrove in 2022 was $26,662, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,648 for a family of four. However, Beechgrove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Beechgrove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beechgrove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Beechgrove include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Beechgrove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Urdu.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 39 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.0% of America.
Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Beechgrove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% 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, 34.4% 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 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 15.0% 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 95.0% 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 Beechgrove, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Asian roots (3.2%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.4%) 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 (21.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.