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Bolivar, TN

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Overview


Bolivar is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,136 people and just one neighborhood, Bolivar is the 111th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bolivar is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.76% of the Bolivar workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bolivar is a city of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bolivar who work in office and administrative support (7.83%), food service (6.39%), and healthcare (5.99%).

A relatively large number of people in Bolivar telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.48% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Bolivar is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bolivar, the average commute to work is 31.13 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Bolivar with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.95% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bolivar in 2022 was $23,041, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,164 for a family of four. However, Bolivar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bolivar is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bolivar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bolivar residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bolivar include Irish, English, German, Welsh, and Jamaican.

The most common language spoken in Bolivar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

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 Bolivar are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.3% 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, 50.5% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.3%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Bolivar, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.4%), and residents who report German roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (1.8%), along with some South American ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (16.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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