Bells is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,458 people and just one neighborhood, Bells is the 196th largest community in Tennessee.
Bells is a blue-collar town, with 40.69% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bells is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bells who work in sales jobs (12.47%), office and administrative support (11.19%), and teaching (8.31%).
As is often the case in a small city, Bells doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Bells have a very low rate of college education: just 9.95% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Bells in 2022 was $30,769, 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 $123,076 for a family of four. However, Bells contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bells is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bells home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bells residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bells also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.12% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bells include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bells is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Bells, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 95.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Bells are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.0% 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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.5%).
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 Bells, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.