Blaine is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,115 people and just one neighborhood, Blaine is the 216th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Blaine was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Blaine economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Blaine, where the median household income is $56,942.00.
Unlike some cities, Blaine isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blaine are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blaine is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blaine who work in healthcare (10.72%), office and administrative support (10.45%), and sales jobs (9.35%).
Of important note, Blaine is also a city of artists. Blaine has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Blaine’s character.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Blaine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blaine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Blaine is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Blaine, the average commute to work is 31.89 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Blaine doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Blaine citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.35% of adults in Blaine have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Blaine in 2022 was $27,621, 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 $110,484 for a family of four. However, Blaine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Blaine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blaine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blaine include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Blaine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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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 Blaine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 31.9% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% 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 Blaine, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.